Tag: Flight and Migration
Afghan Local Workers: Impossible Choice Between Life and Family – Politics
“How should we choose between our life and our freedom on the one hand and our family on the other?” 31 Afghan women who worked as local staff for the…
Family and friendship: "The corpses stay there, we move on. That is the difference"
When his younger brother suddenly disappeared, Ibrahim Balde went to look for him: on foot through the desert to the sea. A story about guilt, despair, friendship and new found…
Migration 2015: Hunger drove them – politics
Research shows: It was not the open door policy that drew many refugees to Western Europe in 2015. Something can be learned from this for dealing with refugees from Afghanistan.…
Writer Khaled Hosseini on Afghanistan: “Heartbreaking” culture
Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner” looked back on the first Taliban era in Afghanistan. How does the writer see the renewed seizure of power? A conversation about the pictures…
Pankaj Mishra’s “Kind Fanatics” essay collection. Review – culture
The Indo-British essayist Pankaj Mishra has been dissecting the colonial arrogance of the West for twenty years. Has anything changed since then? About freedom, deception and the difficult endeavor of…
How bureaucracy prevented local workers from leaving
The Ministry of Defense had already organized two charter planes for June 25th to rescue up to 300 Bundeswehr helpers and their relatives from Mazar-i-Sharif. But the flights were canceled…
Munich duo “Ippio Payo & Genelabo” presents new album – Munich
The year is 1943. Dalmatia has been occupied by the German armed forces and the population is afraid of punitive action. Around 30,000 civilians are therefore fleeing to the island…
Lithuania declares an emergency over migration policy
With increasing urgency, Lithuania laments that its neighbor Belarus is targeting and illegally smuggling migrants across the border in order to punish the Baltic state for the EU sanctions against…
Study on migration in the media: needy or dangerous? – Media
“We’re helping,” was the headline picture on August 29, 2015. In addition, it showed exhausted but cute-looking children of refugees on the first page in large format. On pages two…