Rosi Braidotti is a prominent scholar of gender studies and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She has explored the notion of “nomadism”, which has become the key concept for the development of an extremely rich and original research, varying from poststructuralism, to the history of feminism, to ethics.

The plight of migrants, the ‘globalisation’ of the human condition, poses again the question of solidarity and demands a response of planetary ambition and responsibility.

The degree of racism in a country is an indicator for the level of its internal crisis. In Italy, where this rate is rising dangerously, it is necessary to continue along the route marked by the events of the first of March.

Recent French history has shown the contradictions between governmental immigration policies and the increasing mobilisation of foreign workers. They are demanding rights. And are on strike to get them.

A day without foreigners. It may seem a macabre commercial for the xenophobic Italian Northern League party, but it is actually the slogan of the general strike that has been called on 1st March by the migrants’ communities in Italy and France.

Citizenship has historically grown and expanded through the claim-making and the demands of the excluded: the outsider has the potential to expand the formal rights of citizens.

Sandro Mezzadra discusses the transnational experience of contemporary migrations, pointing to the necessity of a new interpretative paradigm.

Migration is widely recognised as the crucial worldwide political issue for the coming century, and there is no area of politics which in which it does not enter.

European Alternatives has brought the Polis 21 project to London, Athens, Belgrade and is travelling to Zagreb – provoking public debate on urban exclusion and proposing transnational solutions to the question of public space in the city.

The Young European Federalists (JEF) announced new campaign actions against the EU’s visa regime towards other Europeans at their Congress in Florence this week-end. The actions will coincide with the 9th November 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.