Global Social Challenges

Socialmedia, the host or the transitional phase for protests?

by Edgar Klusener | Jun 15, 2017 | Protest and repression

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest By Patricia Domenti Any large-scale protest is a powerful tool. In England, the history of popular protests reaches way back into the 13th century. Back then, protests...

Race and the ‘refugee crisis’.

by Edgar Klusener | Jun 9, 2017 | Migration

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest by Jasmine Givnan Political rhetoric and media discourse today is saturated with panic over the apparent ‘refugee crisis’ which is becoming more globalized and diversified...

The impossible barrier: Would you fail the ‘Life in the UK’ test?

by Edgar Klusener | Jun 9, 2017 | Migration

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest by Miriam Tenquist An integral part of the British immigration policy, the Life in the UK test has to be taken in order to gain permanent residency and citizenship in the...

Prevent – a fight against terrorism or a source to judgement?

by Edgar Klusener | Jun 9, 2017 | Radicalisation

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest by Anna Lindbach As a part of the UK government’s counter terrorism strategy, they released a Prevent strategy, taking the fight against terrorism from the government and...

Is the genie out of the bottle?

by Edgar Klusener | Jun 9, 2017 | Migration

Global Social Challenges Climate Inequality Ageing Radicalisation Corporations Migration Protest by Isla Macrae Since the Brexit vote – when the UK decided to leave the EU -, it can be argued that the nationalist genie has been ‘let out of the bottle’, so to...