The headlines about thousands of migrants losing their lives at sea are shocking. But as news consumers we hear little about the context pushing these people to leave their homes.
Articles on European migration
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How Europe’s resettlement plan breaks down in numbers.
It remains to be seen whether the EU’s narrow approach can prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean.
Thanks to a lack of joined-up policy on refugees, the Mediterranean has become the world’s most dangerous migrant destination.
The current situation in which thousands are dying is untenable. Here are some ideas.
Whether they are migrants or refugees, people are needlessly dying by the boatload.
The Conservative promise to hold a referendum on the UK’s European Union membership has been presented as a clear dividing line between the three main parties in the 2015 election campaign. While the Conservatives…
Both the public and the parliament need to get serious about the EU membership debate.
As Western societies have become more diverse due to immigration and cross-border mobility, the question of how welcoming their native populations are to newcomers has become ever more relevant. Exclusionary…
Ed Miliband has unveiled his party’s second pledge for the forthcoming general election, promising to “control immigration with fair rules”. The Labour leader promised to strengthen the enforcement of…
As the Rochester and Strood by-election approaches, raising the chances of another UKIP politician entering parliament, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has warned against getting caught in an “arms…
David Cameron made a play for Eurosceptic hearts during his speech to the Conservative Party conference by promising to put the free movement of EU citizens at the heart of his renegotiation strategy in…
Thirty lifeless bodies found in the bow of a fishing boat carrying 600 migrants off the coast of Sicily have reignited the debate on illegal crossings in the Mediterranean and how the EU should respond…
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Director of the Migration Policy Centre and Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Marketing in a Global Economy, Vienna University of Economics and Business
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Professor of Integrative Biology and Co-Director, Berkeley Initiative on Global Change Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of political socialization, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in European politics, University of Malta
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Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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Director Centre for European Research and Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
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Willy Brandt Research Fellow, Malmö University
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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
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Research fellow, Lund University
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, CERI SciencePo, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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directrice de recherches sur les migrations internationales, Sciences Po
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Professeur des universités, Centre de Recherche Sur les Inégalités Sociales (CRIS), Sciences Po
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Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing & Director of Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies, Regent's University London