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To whom do we show solidarity? Sociology, as well as political common sense, offer an astonishingly broad spectrum of answers to this question. Irrespective of the scope of solidarity, the concept implies certain types of relationships on which...

In recent years, authors from the Palestinian diaspora have increasingly published literary texts exploring Palestine as their homeland and a place of yearning. Among them are writers who fled in 1947-48 and those born in exile. Although their...

The admission of Vietnamese boat people to the Federal Republic of Germany in the late 1970s and the admission of Syrian, Afghan and other refugees around 2015 exhibit remarkable parallels: civil society, politicians and the media initially...

Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) addresses the issues of migration, flight and assistance by exploring the reality on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The paper takes the film as a starting point to reflect on forms of...

The world of politics rarely concerns itself with what should be according to theories. The world is not ideal. Anyone who bemoans this fact risks merely complaining. If one simply accepts bad realities, one quickly becomes a fellow traveller. A...