Karina Adamova
Karina Adamova argues that migration policies which attempt to address labour shortages and decrease refugee migration treat skilled migrants and refugees as separate categories. What they should do, she says, is treat them as the same people at different points in time. Recent events in Germany show that anti-migrant attitudes can affect migrants’ decisions about where to live – even as the country faces significant labour shortages Read more
Vera Tika
Vera Tika argues that Europe’s populist radical right no longer operates only through parties and elections. Its growing influence lies in its ability to shape migration policy, public discourse, digital communication, and the democratic mainstream itself. Now, the populist radical right shapes the very logic through which democratic systems govern, define threats, manage borders, construct belonging, and normalise exclusion Read more
Radu-Mihai Triculescu
Under growing public scrutiny and growing demands for public communication, how does the European Commission respond to various political pressures? Drawing on two new studies, Radu-Mihai Triculescu, Leonce Röth, Christoph Ivanusch and Klaus H. Goetz show how the European Commission balances and communicatively addresses problem and public pressures in migration and asylum policy Read more
Chimdi Chukwukere
The German government is selling its record wage increase as 'support for workers'. But the wage hike also reveals a shift in how the country thinks about migration and economic planning. The higher wage floor is part of a bigger strategy to manage labour shortages, attract skilled talent, and protect long-term competitiveness, writes Chimdi Chukwukere Read more
James F. Downes
Political parties frame the UK’s British National (Overseas) visa scheme as historical humanitarian responsibility towards Hong Kong in the context of UK-China relations. But is that really the case? James F. Downes and Kenneth Lai analysed parliamentary speeches from 2019 to 2023. Their findings suggest the UK government uses BNO visas as a geopolitical tool Read more
Gülşen Doğan
Amid rising authoritarian populism, how do cities deal with migrants? Gülşen Doğan highlights how cities' innovative migration policies are helping to promote democratic resilience and multi-level cooperation in the face of global challenges. Cities, she argues, are key actors in the defence of democracy and social inclusion Read more
Joseph Ward
The rise of authoritarian politics in ‘formal democracies’ across Europe has been met with various forms of protest. Some of these movements have achieved partial success. But evidence from the UK and France suggests that neoliberal governments are harnessing such resistance to accelerate authoritarianism and hostility towards marginalised people, write Joseph Ward and Thomas Da Costa Vieira Read more
Ariadna Ripoll Servent
The presence of populist governments in European Union policy-making has been largely ignored. Ariadna Ripoll Servent and Natascha Zaun argue that we should pay attention to populists’ behaviour in the Council of the EU. Populist governments do not play by the normal rules of the game; rather, they use ‘unpolitics’. This destructive approach to policy-making was instrumental in blocking a reform of EU migration politics Read more
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