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FOCUS: How the Refugees Smuggled Keynes Back from His Exile

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Peo Hansen The European Union is beset with crises. Presently, the one topping the headlines is the so-called refugee crisis, including [...]

VIEWPOINT: Killers or carers – Who do we think we are when it comes to other animals?

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart We live in a culture that is deeply confused about other animals. Collectively, we may [...]

ON THE FRONTLINE: What are these places for? Calais CAP and Grande Synthe, France’s official refugee camps

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Teresa Piacentini France is getting better at building refugee camps. On its own soil. In 2016. This was a conclusion reached [...]

POLICY BRIEFING: The Challenges of Implementing Targets in UK Government – A ‘Multiple Streams’ Approach

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Christina Boswell and Eugenia Rodrigues The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The [...]

Behind the fence: The visual culture of the refugee crisis

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Nelli Stavropoulou “Th process of coming to see other human beings as ‘one of us’ rather than as ‘them’ is a [...]

Making sense of the politics of volunteering and camp conditions in Calais

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Lotika Singha I had been thinking of volunteering in the camp in Calais in an amorphous way for many months. Then [...]

Getting a better education: To migrate or not to migrate?

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Sait Bayrakdar You only need to switch on the television or radio to listen to the latest discussions around the so-called [...]

Jews and Muslims: a Middle Eastern love story?

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Sarah Irving The Paris attacks and Binyamin Netanyahu's use of them to encourage European Jews to find 'refuge' in Israel; charges [...]

All Our Welfare

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Peter Beresford All Our Welfare sets out to combine an academic analysis of the welfare state, past, present and future, with [...]

How social wealth funds can reduce inequality

By discoversociety
May 03, 2016

Stewart Lansley Political leaders, national and global, continue to declare verbal war on growing inequality. Conservatives should be 'warriors for the [...]