People displaced by climate change is already a humanitarian crisis, and there is little reason to doubt that it will far surpass current violent conflicts in terms of numbers of people displaced. Climate change is occurring today, making certain places dangerous or impossible to inhabit. Since 2008, an average of 24 million people have been…
Category: Migration
No place to hide : The impact of climate change on migration
Extreme weather events driven by climate change, such as the devastating floods in Bangladesh, the recent wildfires in California, or the recurring droughts in the horn of Africa, displace on average 41 people every minute. Climate migrants – people forced to leave their homes due to adverse climate conditions – are the human faces of…
The Age of Aquarius
Many will relate the “Age of Aquarius” with the hippie and/or astrological concept for an exciting and promising future era of happiness and joy soon to come . I will take the licence to use this reference to relate to the arrival of a different Aquarius: a rescue ship run by the French activist group…
Call for articles: Migration, environment & refugee crisis
As the refugee crisis is still our present and the European Union (EU) is having a more than controversial response to it, we, as a young green journal, want to express our opinion about it. If you want to propose solutions, react to the law that has just been voted by the EU, or if…
Migration (on) stage
At the end of the 19th century, the industrialization had created an economic system determining a lifestyle in which we excessively use and discard goods and services, i.e. this consumer society in which we still live. With this industrial revolution, the gap increased between the activities related to the material processing – the useful ones…
Learning from the Past: a Personal Refugee Story
In the European context, it is quite easy to get caught up in the hysteria of refugee migration, especially when media outlets call it “the biggest migration since the Second World War.” These representations make it seem as if an invasion is happening, descending on a surprised, startled and unprepared Europe. However, the biggest surprise…
Destination: a place at which to preserve one’s future
This could be the story of one of the hundred thousand of young people who felt tired, hopeless and without future and who one day decided to abandon their place of residence for a better way of living and developing their future. In the era of economic exile, it wouldn’t be anything strange to hear…
A Journey of Hope for the Victims of Wars
A Migrant’s Perspective Being a migrant – specifically being a refugee – is when a person or people move from one place to another to escape danger and look for a better life. From the beginning until today, migration has always been a habit for humans. It will stay that way as dictated by human nature…
Plenty of Capacity But a Lack of Political Will
by FYEG’s Migration Working Group in honor of World Refugee Day, 20 June For years, many countries and regions have been holding their own Refugee days and weeks. However, more and more refugees and less political solutions are taking place. Increasingly, migration is seen as a major challenge throughout Europe. Since May 2015, according to…
#Ausnahmslos – No Excuses
On New Year’s Eve at Cologne main station several women became victims of sexual assaults. Groups of men gathered and assaulted women. The assaults attracted not only in Germany but also international widespread public attention. Key point of the reporting was sadly not the showed sexism and rape culture, but the ethnic background/origin of the…