Peer2Politics

MIA released her latest video "Borders" recently and caused, as she so often does, an Internet uproar. Her self-directed video is a visual commentary on border regimes and the so-called "refugee crisis." Similar to her previous works, "Borders" immediately gave birth to a number of critical conversations across social media on the politics behind MIA’s imagery. 

Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi was unpalatable to the West, but since his removal, Libyans fleeing the resulting chaos and unrest have (...)

Are the city’s immigrant suburbs incubators of terrorism?

In 2015 alone, more than 530,000 refugees and migrants
have risked their lives crossing the sea to reach Europe.

Winter is coming and it is unacceptable that many have to experience
cold, hunger, and fatigue as they dangerously cross borders by boat and on foot.

Borders themselves may not be going anywhere, but good ideas, smart solutions,
and our humanity transcends all of that - all nations and borders.

Netherlands - Lette de Moor, a Dutch doctor working with Foundation Bootvlucteling in Greece, has posted an account of her day on Wednesday on Facebook. The heartbreaking tale is about a busy but calm day ending with two dead refugee children, drowned while trying to reach safety. - asylum seekers, Greece, Lette de Moor, refugee children, refugee crisis, refugees

Visiting Lesbos last week, where 9,000 people have been arriving each day, I saw families in dreadful humanitarian conditions. Since then, as the weather has deteriorated, it has got worse. Aid workers told me the humanitarian response was worse than in other international crises they had worked on exactly because it was happening in Europe, and the aid, organisation and mandates they have drawn in elsewhere do not apply. We cannot allow this to happen.

Germany will import 1.2 million unskilled migrants this year, many going onto unemployment benefit, according to leaked government document.

Members of Europe’s tech and startup community see a chance to solve some aspects of this challenge by doing what we do best – looking for solutions in unexpected places and applying our substantial collective technological knowledge to building products and services which may be of help – either to the refugees themselves or to the people and organisations who are helping them.

With the Refugee Emojis keyboard you can turn chatting into donating on your smartphone. By downloading the keyboard as an app from Google Play or Appstore you get 36 different emojis that represent the real needs of refugees. Currently there are over 4 million people fleeing from war in their home country Syria. With each download of Refugee Emojis a donation goes directly to the UN Refugee Agency to support them in their aid for refugees.

"There's humanitarian relief needed and there's a lot of policy changes that need to be made as well."

Connecting the World for Learning

As more migrants travel to Europe or are displaced by conflict in the Middle East, another problem has emerged – education.

Shutting down borders and blaming Muslim immigrants for the Paris attacks would give ISIS precisely the type of “civilizational conflict” it craves.

France and the whole world has been horrified by the terrorist attacks in Paris that have left dozens dead.

Global migration today connects people in unprecedented ways. The scale on which migration takes place, as well as the reasons for displacement, means of travel, and problems with settlement and reintegration pose new justice-needs that require innovative justice solutions. In particular, the European Union (EU), including the Netherlands, is facing immense migration flows since the summer of 2015, which is becoming a political priority.

Since the summer, the makeshift Jungle has quadrupled in size - it is now home to 6,000 desperate people. They are living in slum conditions, surviving on charity handouts and risking their lives under the wheels of trains. Now winter is coming …

Orbán’s thesis that multiculturalism is doomed to failure and that different cultural or religious communities cannot co-exist is based on little more than ignorance and prejudice. It ignores a wealth of scholarship and empirical evidence and flies in the face of Europe’s – and especially Hungary’s – own history.

Four babies among dead as boat turns over 20 metres from shore after week in which dozens have died in waters around Greece

On November 5-6 we will host the Italian edition of Techfugees, a non-profit series...

A twenty-four-year-old refugee’s journey across ten borders.

Millions of people around the world want to do what they can to help refugees and migrants caught up in the crisis in Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. We wanted to give you an update on where things stand as we continue to think about what Google—and all of us—can do to help.