Tag: crime
‘Can we manage?’ Anxieties and politicisation in German debates on immigration
On August 31, 2015, Angela Merkel uttered a phrase that many((https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/30/angela-merkel-great-migrant-gamble-paid-off )) have come to see as defining her 15-year tenure...
Syrian regime’s sexual violence may be prosecuted in Germany
On June 17, 2020, human rights advocates filed a potentially path-breaking complaint with the German federal public prosecutor: brought by the European...
Ethnonationalist mob violence in Chemnitz demonstrates far right strength
The slogan “We are the people!” (Wir sind das Volk!) was one of the iconic protest chants of the 1989 ‘peaceful revolution’. It helped...
Muslims in Germany: The long road to acceptance and the ‘integration’...
In an article appearing on Qantara, Deutsche Welle's online platform seeking to foster cross-cultural dialogue with, broadly speaking, the Islamic world, journalist Tonio Postel takes...
