Karolina Zbytniewska / 02 Dec 2021
Playing the Refugee Card
The Polish Border Crisis
Snow fell. The sight of it at first evoked a deeply ingrained childhood joy in me. However, a correction came almost immediately.(...)
Migrants
Josh White / 29 Nov 2021
Drowning in Hatred
Britain’s Immigration Debate
Borders bring almost as much insecurity as security.(...)
Fausia A. / 13 Apr 2021
Mistreating Minority Women
Austrian Healthcare Apartheid
Abortion is legal in Austria within the first three months of pregnancy, after consultation with a doctor. And every year, around 30,000 abortions are performed in the country. Women of colour make up for more than a third of those who undergo an abortion, and nearly half of them are foreign-born. Why is this?(...)
Wieland Hoban / 26 Mar 2021
Jewish in Germany
The JID Interview, Part I
Israelis in Germany. Say what? Few stories about European immigration have been as loaded, and complex as those about Jews moving from the Middle East to Germany. (...)
Filip Noubel and Yevgeniya Plakhina / 12 Feb 2021
The Problem With Navalny
A Central Asian Perspective
Today, the view among most members of the liberal Russian opposition, as well as in the West, is that any mistakes Alexey Navalny might have made in the past should be overlooked in the name of his fight against President Vladimir Putin's political system.(...)
Piotr Maciej Kaczynski / 06 Nov 2020
Welcome to the Jungle
The Samos Refugee Experience
For thousands of years, Samos was known as the idyllic homeland of Pythagoras, a land of white wine. And for decades, a destination for sun-hungry tourists. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 30 Oct 2020
Equal Opportunity Racism
Jews and Palestinians in Germany
While the discriminatory nature of Philosemitism in Germany is not always obvious, due to a lack of knowledge of Jewish culture and politics, it is easier to recognise racism in the way Palestine solidarity advocates are treated.(...)
Joe Keady / 29 Jun 2020
The White Nationalist Experience
Profiling the Ideologues
Despite the contemporary far-right’s propensity for hard-line nationalism, it's a global phenomenon. (...)
Joel Schalit / 08 May 2020
The New Refugee Crisis
Berlin on Greece
Greece is a niche subject. That is if the street art of the German capital is the decider. Off the walls for the better part of the last decade, Athens hasn't figured prominently since the 2008 economic crisis, when it appeared everywhere. That is, until now.(...)
John Foster / 24 Apr 2020
The Communist Influenza
Slavoj Žižek’s Pandemic!
Today's philosophers don’t do well in crises. The case of Giorgio Agamben, in which he wrongly downplayed the danger posed by COVID-19, is a perfect example. (...)