Bastian Friborg (Webster): Refugees and Thoughts on What Should be Done. Seth Frantzman (HUJI): Exodus to Europe. A record-breaking 522,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean to get to Europe this year. Can the EU be hospitable? Jasmine Gani wonders. With some opposition, European leaders establish refugee quotas. Mapped: What each EU country impacted by new quota plan thinks about refugees. Some Eastern European countries are welcoming refugees, some aren’t — here’s why. Why is cosmopolitan Italy so anti-immigrant? The non-existence of Norway: Slavoj Zizek on the refugee crisis (and Peter Ramsey on open borders as the only realistic policy). Dimitris Skleparis (ELIAMEP): The Islamist Threat amidst the Refugee Crisis: Background and Policy Proposals. Turkey and Jordan to EU: Our refugee problem is bigger than yours. Srecko Horvat on how the roots of this refugee crisis go back even further than the Arab spring. Zack Beauchamp on the Syrian refugee crisis, explained in one map.
From The Global Observatory, can mass migration be a good thing? Jimena Leiva Roesch and Jill Stoddard wonder. Don’t blame the smugglers: Hein de Haas on the real migration industry. Let refugees fly to Europe: To stop needless deaths, screen them outside Europe, and allow legitimate asylum seekers to travel legally. Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan and Susan Fratzke on Europe’s migration crisis in context: Why now and what next? Sink or Swim: Michael Soussan on the case for passports for the world’s refugees.
