EU politics
Euronews – EU greenlights controversial return hubs in ‘strictest-ever’ new migration law
When Georgia Meloni did this there was an outcry. Now that the EU is doing the same there’s barely a whimper. Read the full article HERE.
Migration
Solutions
J.W. Mason – A Future of Open Borders?
Thought-provoking and somewhat contrarian prediction of an open border world by 2035. J. W. Mason is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a Fellow at the Roosevelt […]
EU politics
Andrea Pettrachin, Matteo Bassoli: The Italy-Albania migration deal – a policy failure?
Meloni wants to be seen to be fighting with liberal judges and NGOs for control over the migration and asylum issue. In that sense, the fact the Albania migration deal hasn’t worked is not a […]
Globalisation
Inés Valdez – Undoing Empire’s Hold on Democracy: An Anti-Imperialist Path out of the Crisis
An interesting theory of the rise of right-wing populism which roots it in the breakdown of ‘the imperial deal’, whereby white workers and western capitalists sought mutual benefit from subjugation of workers in the global […]
EU politics
Barah Mikaïl – The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective
The EU externalising its borders is neither effective nor moral, and it won’t restrain support for the far-right either. Barah Mikaïl is Associate professor of International Security at IE University in Madrid. Cross-posted from The […]
EU politics
Pierre Micheletti – Why the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea
The EU’s new Asylum and Migration Pact is worse than useless. Pierre Micheletti is responsible for the “Health – Solidarity – Precariousness” degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). Cross-posted […]
EU politics
Bianca Carrera Espriu – How Border Externalisation Became the EU’s Migration Strategy
Having played a key role in providing political cover for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Von Der Leyen is now making sure the massive refugee crisis the Gaza war has generated will be contained by Egypt’s […]
EU politics
Robin Jaspert – How Europe Made Indebted African States Into Its Border Police
‘Since 2015, the EU has increasingly demanded that African states repress migration on its behalf. It secures their compliance through economic coercion — exploiting debt relations which have in recent times sharply turned in favor […]
EU politics
Sam Okyere – Priced out by imports, Ghana’s farmers risk death to work in Italy
Farmers in Ghana say cheap Italian tomatoes are ruining their businesses. Many have travelled to seek work abroad. Sam Okyere is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He is primarily interested in […]
EU politics
Lorenzo Piccoli – Offshoring Asylum the Italian Way
The agreement between Italy and Albania to relocate asylum seekers to an Italian run enclave in the Balkans country is unlikely to be legal, and will only make asylum processes more arduous and cumbersome. Lorenzo […]