17 Avr Comparative analysis: When will the world be vaccinated? And will it include people in displacement?
As countries around the world scramble to get their populations vaccinated, the World Health Organisation (WHO) describes vaccines as a “vital tool” in the global fight against COVID-19. Since the approval of various vaccines in December 2020, some countries have leapt ahead of others in procuring and administering vaccinations. Governments...
19 Mar The Climate Crisis Threat: 143 million climate refugees by 2050
Today, on 19.03.2021, people around the world are taking to the street to demonstrate. Among them, most notably, Fridays for Future, global climate strike movement, demands politics and industry meet the commitments made to the 1.5C degree pathway. The climate crisis* is, just as migration, a transversal topic that touches...
06 Mar Hanau: Portraits from the Protest
On the 19th of February 2020, a racist terrorist attack took the lives of nine people and injured a further six in the German city of Hanau, a town east of Frankfurt am Main. One year after the racially motivated terrorist attack, on Friday 19th February 2021, memorials took place...
19 Fév “We were murdered because we are foreigners”: One year after the Hanau terrorist attack
One year ago today, on the 19th of February 2020, a racially motivated terrorist attack took the lives of nine people and injured a further six in the German city of Hanau, a town east of Frankfurt am Main. The families are demanding Erinnerung, Gerechtigkeit, Aufklärung, Konsequenzen (Recollection, Justice, Reconnaissance,...
01 Fév Covid-19 Misinformation: Scapegoating Migrants and Minorities
Across Europe and the rest of the world, Covid-19 spread faster than authorities and officials expected and with it, conspiracy theories and false claims. While there was initially hope to use the crisis as a community-building opportunity, the narrative public officials and politicians have pursued is clear: migrants and minorities...
15 Jan The State of Play: Migration and Media in France
At the height of the ‘refugee crisis’ in 2016, the year marked the beginning of a new type of environment for conversations surrounding migration in media and news across France and Europe. This type of discourse has often proven to be heavily fueled by misleading narratives and misinformation, and has...
13 Déc Queerness and Exile in Cinema
This piece investigates the recent emergence of queer migrant films in contemporary European cinema that embrace an exilic tone. It focuses on the film A Moment in the Reeds, which was released in 2017. The film tells the story of Leevi, a Finnish man living in Paris for his studies,...
04 Déc The Beauty of Democracy: Reflecting on the Afghan Constitution and its Application
“Everyone is equal before the law” – so it says. Laws like this are written on paper but are far from reality, shares Sahar Reza in German refugee magazine Kohero, about Afghanistan. The current Afghan constitution went into effect in January of 2004, consisting of 162 articles. In theory, these...