Melissa Kerr Chiovenda and Andrea Chiovenda
International attention for gruesome isolated attacks in Afghanistan ignores the structural conditions that make life unlivable for many Afghanis. Current European border and asylum regimes lack the legal and policy frameworks for acknowledging these long-term, social conditions.
Mark Akkerman
Rising calls for deterrence have intensified both the physical violence migrants face at the EU border and border externalization to third party countries. The financial gains of international arms firms in this militarizing trend form an obstacle for policy change.
Barak Kalir and Céline Cantat
The European Union funds extensive migration research, yet evidence-based immigration policy is undermined by the EU’s increasingly repressive border regime.
Donya Alinejad and Saskia Baas
Syrian migration is perhaps the most pressing displacement phenomenon of our time. Yet few political progressives in Europe have engaged seriously with its reasons and consequences.
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Jeff Crisp
Oxford Refugee Studies Center Research Associate and former policy head at UNHCR
Yassin al Haj Saleh
Assadism willfully manufactured sectarian divides. These divisions are now emerging as genocidal formations that imply a readiness to annihilate others. What does Syria show us about the need to resist political leaders’ weaponization of group identities?
Samer Abboud
Understanding the root causes of the Syrian conflict must include an analysis of socio-economic transformations that preceded the 2011 uprising. Fast tracked economic liberalization of the 2000’s deepened economic inequalities and eroded social safety nets, causing part of the disenfranchisement that prompted the protests.
Sune Haugbolle
Incarceration and torture have been standard tools of Syria’s repressive state apparatus since the installation of the Assad regime in the 1960s. Exposing the conditions in the prisons has long been part of Syria’s counter-culture, and remains a key element of the Syrian revolutionary movement today.
Thomas Pierret
The Syrian revolution received little solidarity from the progressive left across the world due to the anti-imperialist track record of the Assad regime. What is that record and how much importance should we give it?
Leila al Shami
As current international pushes for Syrian refugee returns take hold, European solidarity efforts must understand that the danger of return is not simply war but corrupt and brutal state repression.