Archive for Opinions

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part IV

  by Angela Zarro in response to Bethany Ojalehto and Jacob Akech Bethany’s article takes a close and hard look at the condition of being a refugee, going beyond any use of definitions and categories. The stories that Bethany tells, remind us that refugees are first and foremost people and like ...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp: Conversation part III

  by bethany ojalehto, in response to Jacob Akech Jacob Akech raises an intriguing and perennial question in the study of human cognition. How do our global portraits of human thought account for the striking local diversity of individual minds? In any group of people there exist profound individu...

• The Rosarno Riots and the European Debate on Immigration: A southern point of view

  by Ayman Zohry The Rosarno riots between African immigrants and residents came as a sad opening of the year 2010. Rosarno, with its fertile land, is famous for producing citrus and olive, also produces xenophobia and racism. What happened in Rosarno is just a piece in the immigration puzzle of Eu...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp – Conversation part II

  by Jacob Akech in response to Bethany Ojalehto Bethany's work makes an important contribution to our understanding of violation of refugee rights.  More needs to be written on psychological dimension of human rights violation, especially in refugee camps. However in my view, the article trea...

• The Cognitive Landscape of a Refugee Camp – Conversation part I

  by bethany ojalehto We live in time and space, and orient ourselves to the reality around us by perpetually creating our point of existence along these axes. The experience of cognitive freedom is fundamentally tied to our perceived ability to navigate ourselves along these continua as independen...

• Global Forum on Migration & Developement: A hard journey of policy

  by Angela Zarro The Global Forum on Migration and Development, at its third edition,  was recently held in Athens on 2-3 November 2009. The discussion was structured in 3 main tracks focusing on migration in relation to: MDGs, integration/reintegration issues and institutional and political c...

• Forgotten…

  by Jan Pronk Millions of people are living in forgotten cities. They are refugees and displaced persons, put away in camps at the margins of the modern world. Hardly ever is a camp closed down. Camps are swelling in order to offer refuge against continuing or newly emerging dangers. Generations s...

• The Impact of the Current Economic Crisis on Migration: Findings from Egypt

  by Ayman Zohry “The world is confronted with the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. The evolving crisis, which began within the world’s major financial centers, has spread throughout the global economy, causing severe social, political and economic impacts” (Uni...

• International Migration: Open versus Closed Borders

  by Dulo Nyaoro Introduction The nexus between migration, border controls and policing pose critical challenges and opportunities to across section of interest groups. As regional trading blocks are being considered as viable alternatives to individual country approaches and political integratio...

• Refugee free press struggling to remain afloat and independent

  by bethany ojalehto Since October 2008, refugee journalists in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, have been involved in an arduous struggle for the first fully independent, refugee-run news source to reach the international community from a refugee camp. Refugee journalists launched the Kakuma News R...