This piece is part of a novel collaboration between The Governance Post and The Paris Globalist, the international affairs magazine by students at Sciences Po in Paris, France. “When violence against NGOs broke out in… [Read more]
Tag: migration
A Contradiction of Asylum: Sexual Violence in Greece’s Refugee Camps
Content Warning: Sexual Violence The word ‘asylum,’ like many others, entered the English language from Greece. Its origin, ‘asylos’ means inviolable, or literally, an inviolable place. Useful and broad, the word evolved to describe different… [Read more]
Ireland’s Hypocritical Immigration Policy
In just three hundred years, more than ten million people emigrated from Ireland, a figure that doubles the nation’s current population. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, when Europe was marred by upheaval… [Read more]
Humanity for Sale: Europe’s Deadly Migration Policy
By sealing off its borders and inhumanely detaining migrants at secret locations through extrajudicial means, Europe has compromised its values and adherence to international law. Is this the EU’s last chance to respond with compassion… [Read more]
What Chinese History can tell us about “The End of Europe”
Drawing comparisons to the factors that led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China, MPP student Maximilian Römer examines the factors that are currently dragging down the European Union and could ultimately lead… [Read more]
The Global Compact for Migration: What should be the role of the EU?
As the world commemorates the International Migrants day, MPP student Camilla Lovrek weighs upon the challenges and potentials of the Global Compact on Migration, and the role of the European Union. For the past years, the EU… [Read more]
Kitchen on the Run- Feeding Hope
Founded in 2015 by Hertie alumni Rabea Haß and her friend Jule Schröder, Kitchen on the Run organises cooking events for refugees and locals in a mobile shipping container. Rabea Haß on cooking, cultural exchange… [Read more]
Let’s not Rationalise the Irrational
Taking European citizens’ concerns about ’the foreign’ seriously does not imply uncritically adopting them. Especially in times of change it is important to confront citizens’ fears with facts in order to establish a respectful dialogue… [Read more]
Kiron Education – Discovery of the Year 2015
It is by no means a revolutionary idea that education is the key to integration and independence – yet so many refugees struggle to gain access to it. Asking young people who have recently left… [Read more]