Between Humanitarianism and Security: Displacement in a Perilous State of Exception

By on    Ethics and values, EU countries' trends, Human rights and justice, Politics, Refugee crisis & integration  

Between Humanitarianism and Security: Displacement in a Perilous State of Exception

By James Fitzgerald • This paper examines how the politics of state, border, and biological control affect the journeys and experiences of asylum seekers and “irregular” migrants who are, at once, the victims and recipients of care and security. Building on fieldwork carried out at the “migrant aid centre” in Porte de la Chapelle, Paris, […]

Long-Term Changes and the Crisis of Democracy in Western Society – EuropeNow

By on    Democracy in Crisis, EU countries' trends, Politics  

Long-Term Changes and the Crisis of Democracy in Western Society – EuropeNow

• Multiple and more frequent crises have been taking place in consolidated democracies where governments fail to solve problems, politics takes extremist directions, and entire institutional systems perform poorly. In a few words, the performances of democracy have been disappointing, and these conditions of dissatisfaction and distress risk to undermine the legitimacy of our institutions. […]

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