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Displaced lives: Investigating Europe's handling of the refugee crisis and giving voice to asylum-seeking migrants

30 Nov 2020

For the last three years, the RESPOND project has been investigating migration governance in 11 countries by foregrounding the insights of asylum-...

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Opinion: Angela Merkel to run again: why she's the antithesis of Donald Trump in a post-truth world

21 Nov 2016

In this article, Katharina Karcher from the Department of German and Dutch discusses the election prospects of the self-described “chancellor for...

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Teaching EAL students

Improving support for pupils with English as an additional language

08 Jul 2016

A new report on UK school pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) argues that their progression in English language proficiency...

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Psychotic disorders in minority groups: the high price of being an ‘outsider’

01 Apr 2016

Immigrant groups experience a high incidence of mental illness. Hannah Jongsma (Department of Psychiatry) is looking at data from an international...

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Merkel took a hit at the polls but so have most other European leaders.

Opinion: German election: is this really a verdict on Merkel’s open door to refugees?

15 Mar 2016

Katharina Karcher (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) discusses Germany's regional elections, which saw major gains made by the right-wing...

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EU migrant workers

Honeypot Britain? EU migrants’ benefits and the UK referendum

25 Feb 2016

Ahead of Britain’s EU referendum, research will explore the experiences of EU migrants working in the UK, and attitudes to employment and social...

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Donald Trump in Reno, Nevada

Opinion: Harsh Republican immigration rhetoric is invigorating Latino voters

22 Feb 2016

Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez Sierra (Centre of Latin American Studies) discusses how the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Republican candidates is forcing Latino...

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Can free movement of workers be stopped?

07 Nov 2014

'How can the government stem the tide of migrant workers coming to the UK?' This question has been asked with increasing vigour by those who perceive...

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Detail from the cover image of “The English and Their History”.

Stability, unity and nonchalance: What does it mean to be English?

06 Nov 2014

An epic new history of England offers some eye-catching conclusions on Englishness – suggesting, among other things, that a “remarkable” level of...

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Citizens of the flow

24 Feb 2014

New research from the Department of Sociology is looking at how rhetoric and policy shape immigrant identities, attitudes and behaviour in Europe.

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Christmas dinner

‘Intelligent Trust’, ethno-religious relations and the rise of the food bank

14 Feb 2014

Shana Cohen and Ed Kessler discuss how individuals of different ethno-religious backgrounds in Europe can learn to trust each other, and how...

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Black Power in Britain becoming “forgotten history”

05 Jan 2014

A new biography of Darcus Howe, which offers the first detailed history of Britain’s little-known Black Power movement, claims that the racism it...

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