Backlash prompts Merkel to take hard stance against refugee crisis
Dec 06, 2016 13:22 pm UTC| Commentary Politics
This week a police investigation revealed that a German girl named Maria Ladenburger, 19, who was raped and murdered in Freiburg, Germany, died in the hands of an Afghan teenage refugee, who came illegally in Germany in...
Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants
Dec 01, 2016 01:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons, but chief among them was the sense of their having been economically abandoned for several decades. Trump has promised to restore their economic...
Why Europe's 'fortress' approach to migration crisis won't work
Nov 17, 2016 23:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Between January and November 2015, approximately 1.5 million migrants reached the European Union through the Mediterranean Sea. This high level of migration continued in 2016. Several European countries that previously...
Nov 16, 2016 22:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The future of immigration from the European Union into Britain is likely to dominate the kind of deal Britain gets after Brexit. In a survey conducted in mid-October by Survation for ITV news about the post-Brexit future,...
Britain's obession with net migration makes it a global anomaly
Nov 16, 2016 11:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since David Cameron pledged to significantly reduce net migration back in 2010, the term has featured prominently within British political and media debates. The Vote Leave campaign made net migration a central theme...
How strong social networks can help migrants manage health risks better
Nov 14, 2016 21:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Migration is a global phenomenon. In West Africa, about 33% of people have moved from their village of birth. In Ghana, inter-regional movement is a major contributor to where people live, with over 50% of the population...
US deal is a good news story for refugees -- here's why it took so long
Nov 13, 2016 21:09 pm UTC| Law
Alex Reilly, Deputy Dean and Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide The Australian government has announced a new deal, long-expected in policy circles, that...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight