On January 26th, 2020, Stefano Bonacci, the gubernatorial candidate of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party (DP) in the region of Emilia-Romagna, won 51.4% of the vote to defeat the candidate of the right-wing coalition including the populist 5 Star Movement and Matteo Salvini’s League party. The contest was seen as an important defeat for the populist coalition, which won control… Read more →
Tag: Refugees
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Health Spotlight – Muntaqa Zaman
Muntaqa Zaman, post #3 The health of the Rohingya refugees remains one of the most critical issues preventing the uplift of their situation. Many of these health barriers include lack of WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), communicable diseases (such as cholera, measles, HIV, and diptheria), and most importantly, mental health. A report by the National Institute of Health states: “Mental… Read more →
Why Have Anti-Immigrant Populist Politicians in Italy Been So Successful? – Alexandra Hartman
The rise of Italy’s populist parties, the 5 Star Movement and the League, can be traced back to financial austerity and an increase in migration beginning in 2011. When the Qaddafi regime in Libya collapsed that year, flows of migrants and refugees from Libya to Italy increased dramatically, both because people fled chaos in Libya and because the government… Read more →
Female Syrian Refugees in Turkey – Reagan Brill
Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 February 28, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey Blog 3 As a general update on the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey, in my first blog I found that as of January 9, 2020 there were 3,576,659 registered refugees (UNHCR). That number has increased by about 10,000 people as of… Read more →
Reagan Brill – Syrian Women Refugees in Turkey
Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 February 14, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey Blog 2 My last blog post discussed some statistical data as an introduction to the current refugee crisis going on in Turkey as a result of the Syrian Civil War. I also went into some detail about the refugee’s participation in the… Read more →
Colonial Abuse Goes Corporate: Democratic Republic of Congo|Thomas Doyle
Colonialism, the abuse that is inherent to colonial rule, and the systematic injustice that was status quo for hundreds of years is finally over. At least, that is the perception that many of us in the west have, when we think of what was happening in African colonies only a short time ago. While foreigners are no longer coming to… Read more →
Ben Stoffel Blog 1–Refugees in Israel and Palestine
The refugee crisis in Palestine as well as the several sovereign states surrounding it is an issue that maintained high geopolitical status throughout the latter half of the 20th century, but is often taken secondly in the wake of the Arab Spring movements of the last decade. Living in the wake of the decision to establish an inherently Jewish state… Read more →
Climate refugees can now seek asylum after UN Human Rights ruling — Cassie Korcel
The Australian bushfires have gained the attention of the world on a global scale concerning the effects of climate change. However, this brought foward news on the UN Human Rights Committee and its landmark ruling that “governments must take into account climate-related human rights violations when they consider deporting asylum seekers” (Wasuka). Not only had this never been done before,… Read more →
Refugees in Syria/Turkey — Reagan Brill
Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 January 31, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey The outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in March 2011 has turned the lives of millions of Syrians upside down. In response to the crisis, many families left all their possessions and fled to Turkey which now houses 3,576,659 registered Syrian refugees… Read more →
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: A Brief History – Muntaqa Zaman
The Rohingya are an ethnic minority of Muslims native to Myanmar, originally from the northwestern region known as the Rakhine state. The crisis refers to the persecution of the Rohingya by the Myanmar government and their forced mass exodus to the neighboring country of Bangladesh since 2015. This conflict is not recent, however, and here we examine a brief historical… Read more →