EU politics
Politico – Frontex gets power to track migration talk on social media
Frontex is watching you. Read the article HERE.
Migration
Geopolitics
Matilde Rosina – Ceuta shows how migration can be weaponised: but numbers are falling, not rising
The fallout from Ceuta has much more to do with politics than it does the reality of the EU’s external borders Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the […]
Geopolitics
Ahmed Najar – How Israel and the European far-right tried to exploit Ceuta
Netanyahu’s best chance of stopping the rot when it comes to international support for Israel is to sow hate and racism, towards muslims in particular. In ‘Al Jazeera’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Euronews – Ceuta crisis prompts EU ministers to consider internal border checks
Schengen will collapse, sooner or later. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Chris Hedges – Becoming the Stranger
Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris […]
Economics
Tayfun Er – Migration and capitalism
Capitalism forces people to move, and at the same time takes advantage of that movement to extract greater profit. Tayfun Er is a writer and civil engineer based in Turkey. He is the author of […]
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.
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 […]