Live and let die: did Michel Foucault predict Europe's refugee crisis?
Feb 26, 2016 05:11 am UTC| Insights & Views
In March 1976, philosopher Michel Foucault described the advent of a new logic of government, specific to Western liberal societies. He called it biopolitics. States were becoming obsessed with the health and wellbeing of...
Crisis or opportunity? How European countries use refugees for political gain
Feb 26, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
After no fewer than five emergency summits, a solution to Europes refugee crisis remains elusive. The list of failures is long and growing including the failure to deliver hotspots, reception centres meant to process...
Why is the UK ramping up costs for potential Australian migrants?
Feb 24, 2016 08:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The UK government has become increasingly desperate to find any means it can to reduce its number of new migrants. Reuters/Neil Hall Australian citizens make up one of the largest groups entering the UK each year. More...
Writing home: how German immigrants found their place in the US
Feb 18, 2016 12:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The hysterical anti-migrant and anti-refugee rhetoric from the Republican candidates in the US presidential race has reached a fever pitch lately, with Donald Trump leading the charge. From advocating the building of a...
Britain can block migrant benefits – no one in Europe actually cares
Feb 01, 2016 13:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Europe is undergoing an existential crisis. Whatever the eurozone hasnt already managed to break is well on the way to being destroyed by the refugee crisis. The Schengen agreement of open borders has more or less...
Europe's failed response to refugee crisis risks fraying local labor markets
Jan 20, 2016 11:22 am UTC| Law
Europes refugee crisis neither began nor ended when the body of a Kurdish boy was found washed up on a Turkish beach in September. In all, he was just one of 3,770 people who lost their lives in 2015 as over a million...
Migrant communities think more like non-migrants after just one generation, study suggests
Jan 16, 2016 10:30 am UTC| Research & Analysis Life
A common fear among the general public in many Western countries is that immigrants have ways of thinking or social values that are fundamentally different to them, and that these differences prevent them from integrating...
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