A migrants’ strike in Italy and France

A day without foreigners. This 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.

Saskia Sassen: Membership and Its Politics

The growth of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe is renationalizing membership politics. Citizenship has historically grown and expanded through the claim-making and the demands of the excluded: the outsider has indeed the potential to expand the formal rights of citizens.

Between Centre and Periphery: The Labyrinth of Contemporary Migrations

Sandro Mezzadra discusses the transnational experience of contemporary migrations, pointing to the necessity of a new interpretative paradigm in order to photograph the contemporary economic, political, and cultural inderdependences.

A Progressive European Migration Policy is Urgent

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.

POLIS 21 travels through Athens, Belgrade to Zagreb

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.

How is the EU responding to the greatest development challenge of the 21st century?

This is a synthesis of “Spotlight on Policy Coherence”, a 2009 report which is has been written by Concord with the intention of forming the baseline for future analyses of the positive and negative impacts of (in)coherent EU policies on the ground.

Migration and Underdevelopment: What’s Europe’s Responsibility?

Immigration has always been an important issue in internal politics, especially in Southern Europe. Migrants are often seen as responsible for all sorts of national problems, from the high level of unemployment to the criminality issues. But the question we want to ask here is: why do so many human beings actually risk their life trying to arrive in Europe? Is the EU commercial policy responsible for the impoverishment of the Third World?

If Odysseus was alive today, he would end up in an asylum camp

Immigrants in Greece exist everywhere, but no one knows where. No one talks about them. They are ignored. The Greek policy makers remember them when they talk about criminality and the perils of social instability.