In Africa, the predicted rate of urbanisation is overestimated. In India, the speed of urbanisation is underestimated. Researchers at IIED – the International Institute for Environment and Development – in the UK discovered this when reviewing the data on which the predictions are based.“There are many myths concerning urbanisation”, says...
Due to heavy urban migration, city slums are continuing to spread. They become the clearest piece of evidence that large cities are not planned to ensure that everyone has access to water, housing and basic sanitation. Today, an estimated 863 million live in slums around the world. The number increased...
The last few years several newspapers have claimed that climate change will lead to “millions of climate refugees”. But according to Angela Oels, migration in fact isn’t caused only by a single factor: “For us, from the social sciences. It is very important to highlight that there is no simple...
Opinion by Eleni Karageorgiou PhD candidate in Public International law at Lund University EUROPES´S ONGOING FAILURE to humanely respond to the plight of refugees has created severe problems in ensuring adequate reception for those seeking asylum. The inability of national systems to adapt to increased numbers of asylum seekers is...
“With hindsight, the refugee crisis of 2015 could very well emerge as one of our most fruitful cultural and economic processes of all time”, writes Dick Harrison, Professor of History. IT IS OFTEN SAID THAT WE NEVER LEARN FROM HISTORY. The expression is sometimes used to illustrate human stupidity in...
There is an ongoing systematic discrimination against stateless Palestinian refugees in Lebanon – a discrimination that has shaped generations. Without the right to own land, the opportunity for good education, and the right to obtain an ID or passport, hundreds of thousands find themselves in limbo, living in permanent rundown...
As soon as the weapons are silent in Syria, people will start to rebuild their lives and their country. Tareq Emtairah, associate professor at IIIEE, is strongly convinced of this, which is why he and his colleagues have started visionary workshops where exiled researchers can meet with Lund University researchers...
Meet Dalia Abdelhady, sociologist at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, currently working on a comparative study of the experiences of children of immigrants in four European countries and the United States. Why did you choose to go into the field of migration studies? I started out studying...
Dalia Abdelhady, senior researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies has been studying French media and the coverage of refugees. For her French media is kind of interesting because, more so than Sweden, the newspapers have strong political alliances. The assumption was that the newspapers given their political differences...
