Tag: border politics

• Stranded at sea: A decade after EU’s migrant crisis, hundreds still dying in Mediterranean

  August 23, 2025

  Italy hailed a drop in irregular arrivals last year as proof its migration policies are working. One boat’s journey shows the dangers of the crackdown. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/stranded-sea-decade-after-eus-migrant-crisis-hundreds-still-dying-mediterranean-2025-08-19/ more ›

• New Books in World Affairs: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, “The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen” (Columbia Global Reports, 2015)

  April 19, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/fAE43FT What does citizenship—an institution that has historically linked identity to place—mean in an age of globalization? This is the question that Atossa Araxia Abrahamian investigates in her planet-sprawling book The Cosmopolites:… more ›

• “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

  March 27, 2025

  On Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called his wife, Nathali Sánchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas. Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela, explained that his deportation… more ›

• All the thorny questions the EU needs to answer to make ‘return hubs’ a reality

  February 22, 2025

  The project of establishing “return hubs” for rejected asylum seekers faces a myriad of challenges, including potential conflicts with international law. The European Union must outsource parts of its migration… more ›