Reuters – April 25, 2012 Marine Le Pen’s breakthrough in the French election’s first round brought her anti-immigrant National Front (FN) party its highest poll score to date, touching off a round of soul-searching as French elites sought to understand her appeal. But an explanation comes quickly to the sons and grandsons of North…
News Agencies – April 19, 2012 France’s Muslim community is mobilizing voters to reject President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 22 April election to punish the conservative leader for his anti-immigrant and anti-Islam rhetoric. “[French] Muslims can’t stand it anymore. They are fed up with these debates about national identity, halal meat, the veil or…
The diversity of the immigrant community in Germany is conspicuously absent from the German media. Hardly a country in Europe has as few media professionals with migrant backgrounds as Germany. A new association of media professionals, is intent on changing this situation. Sophie Schabarum has been taking a closer look
News Agencies – March 28, 2012 Nearly 60 percent of the French say they distrust youth from the ‘banlieues’, France’s impoverished, immigrant-dominated suburbs, according to a new survey that has laid bare the country’s divisions. “The results are extremely worrying,” Thibault Renaudin, national secretary of Afev, the organization that published the poll. The poll conducted…
21 November 2011 Movisie, a Dutch organization for social development, has created a website to support immigrant girls in the Netherlands who are contemplating suicide. The site “You are not alone” has sections for girls of Moroccan, Turkish and Suriname-Hindu background. It was created in affiliation with the youth websites Marokko.nl, Hababam.nl and Indianfeelings.nl, and…
