Spotlight Migration and COVID-19

Just City Documentary: What Makes A City Just?

08.11.2024 Climate Change, Energy and Environment

FES Asia communications team went story-hunting on the ground in Bangkok to explore the best answers or solutions for different city-dwellers seeking practical approaches to achieve what could be a just city.
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The light installation entitled ‘Diversity is our strength’ by artist Christoph Stark shines from the roof of a high-rise building. The words Diversity is our home can be read.

Decisive action, smart integration

07.11.2024 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Integration Policy, Migration policy

Chief Administrative Officer of the Federal district of Minden-Lübbecke, Ali Doğan, criticises the ideological narrowing of the migration debate and calls for a stronger focus on opportunities and infrastructure, especially at a local level.
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Panel guests at the peaceptions conference in Berlin

Peaceptions: What is peace?

07.11.2024 Peace and Security

Waging peace is more than just ending war. Besides reducing violent conflict, however, what else is needed for just and enduring peace? The Peaceptions Project of the GIGA and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is dedicated to this question.
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Iryna Pinchuk in a black evening dress in her home country of Ukraine next to border elements.

A progressive approach to explaining migration: A transnational perspective

31.10.2024 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Integration Policy, Migration policy

Iryna Pinchuk fled the war in Ukraine in 2022. She reflects on personal boundaries, identity and the path to her new reality.
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A tube station was temporarily renamed ‘Diversity’. German "Vielfalt"

Playing with our fears – and how we have to push back

24.10.2024 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Migration policy

How we can achieve a progressive narrative based on humanity, when terms such as “security” and “fear” have become omnipresent in the migration discourse.
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Vorschaubild der Artikelreihe "New Pact on Migration and Asylum Implementation"

The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: A Step Forward or More of the Same?

17.10.2024 Migration policy

The New Pact introduces bold reforms, but is it enough to deliver true solidarity or just a patchwork of political compromises? A series of studies of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Foundation for European Progressive Studies and the European...
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Luftansicht von einer Reihe an Schlauchbooten und Außenmotoren an einem Hafen

Labour’s approach to immigration in government

15.10.2024 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Migration policy

In the very first days after the change of government, the new Labour government scrapped the Rwanda deal, which had been vehemently promoted by the Tories. However, this does not solve the challenges in migration policy. Sunder Katwala outlines the...
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How cities can safeguard migrants‘ digital rights

09.10.2024 Interview, Displacement, Migration, Integration, Integration Policy

A new study highlights how the EU's New Pact on Migration and Asylum may intensify surveillance and discriminatory practices against refugees and migrants. In this interview, author Léa Lebon and Katharina Bamberg from Eurocities critically explore...
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Eine Hand hält ein Handy, auf dem die App "Union Platform" zu sehen ist, daneben wird grafisch eine Handykonversation dargestellt

Unions’ own technologies

08.10.2024

Trade Unions not only innovate on the use of technology, they are developing their own tools and Apps.
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FES diskurs | Cities and migrants‘ rights in the era of digitalisation

01.10.2024 Einwanderungsgesellschaft, Migration policy

This paper analyses the impact of the screening procedure and the Eurodac reform on migrants' digital rights and the role of local authorities in integration measures. It shows that the EU New Pact on Migration and Asylum risks increasing...
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