Migration and awareness of trafficking in persons
One aspect of migration issues is the issue of the trans-frontier trafficking in persons. Awareness has been growing, but effective remedies are slow and uncoordinated.... Read More
European democracies and the responsibility to not protect?
How can we understand the paradox whereby migrant deaths and increased resources develop concomitantly?
“The right of return” – to where?
A resolution to the refugee problem will also contribute greatly to resolving the conflict with Hamas, as the continuing humanitarian crisis has been fueling the... Read More
Global Compact for Migration – a necessary first step
The Association of World Citizens, which is in consultative status with the UN, is stressing the need for cooperative efforts carried out in good faith... Read More
Ain Al-Hilweh redux – what’s still Palestinian in those refugee camps?
Today, some 51 years following the establishment of Palestinian refugee camps on Lebanese soil (Ain al-Hilweh was among the first), we must ask ourselves a... Read More
Lebanon’s refugee crisis through a sectarian lens
It is important to reflect on the essential role sectarianism has played in preventing the Lebanese State from establishing an effective and rational asylum policy... Read More
“Women and Children First” – war, humanitarianism, and the refugee crisis
Is a rethinking of laws of armed conflict or international humanitarian law, humanitarian assistance and refugee policy not significantly overdue?
Setting the EU scene – a management crisis, not a refugee crisis
The EU can and must show leadership in managing refugee movements effectively in accordance with international law.
Refugees in Belgrade and the rise of ‘prickly spaces’
The official response to the refugee crisis across Europe and beyond has been a failure to engage in the hard work of imagining how newcomers,... Read More
Young refugees and peacebuilding – a missing link
The ability and willingness of young people to build networks across social lines, engage in creative problem solving and act as community leaders presents an... Read More
Deradicalization in refugee camps and beyond
Host countries cannot be long on talking and short on funding. Any government committed to deradicalizing young men and women must invest, along with private... Read More
When it comes to settling migrants, the Mideast must do it
Merkel should acknowledge the pragmatic obstacles to humanitarianism in Europe and call for massive investment in refugee settlements in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
The year Europe breaks
Another year of an unstoppable refugee flood will tear up the reality of a borderless EU while raising a popular political backlash. And when Europe finally... Read More
Lessons of the Balkan refugee crisis
The EU keeps reminding the countries of the region that 20 years after the end of the Balkan wars, the progress achieved in terms of... Read More
Coercive Utopia
The European Union is an obstacle to Balkan Development. The desire to get into the European Union is an even bigger obstacle.
The refugee crisis – demilitarising masculinities
Photos emerging from the borders of Europe weave a new narrative around what it means to be vulnerable, to be a man, to say no... Read More
Entering a fracture zone
The refugees in the park in Belgrade seem to be part of a fracture zone that is becoming increasingly easy to trace; across Greece, Macedonia... Read More
The great wandering
Mass migration continues to define Europe as a system of human fluid dynamics.
The refugee crisis
Europe has tried to hide from this basic fact, that nothing but a sea separates them from the millions seeking a better life. In the immediate... Read More
For Syrian refugees child marriage is a necessity
Research by women’s right organizations purports that the prevalence of child marriage is not due to lack of awareness about the concerns of the practice,... Read More
