While at this very moment the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is threatening, in the form of blackmail, to let "millions of migrants" head for Europe, the refugee issue is undermining the fundamental principles of European civilisation. Our societies, comfortable but full of fears of everything, are looking at
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Faced with the State's disengagement from housing, municipalities are mobilizing all over the world, imagining a new urbanism and a new architecture to make room for everyone. An analysis by Cyrille Hanappe, architect, for De facto | Institut Convergences Migrations. At the end of 2015, when the mayor of
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The growing number of international migrants has now reached 272 million, surpassing the growth rate of the world population, according to new data from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) released on 17 September. These figures reflect a jump over 2010, when the
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Release of the book "Migrations: Received Ideas and Proposals" by the Utopia Movement
Editions Utopia, August 26, 2019 - 152 Pages
Managing migration in an era of climate change and democratic crises is an increasingly central challenge.
Migration is both a reality and a fantasy. They
There are 7.7 billion of us living on this Earth. Another 80 million every year, or 220,000 every day. Even if the pace has slowed down a little, the trend leads us to a world population of more than 8 billion souls by 2022 to reach the 10 billion mark in 2050.
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Over the past few decades, migrants have become increasingly connected, as have the societies in which they live. In this particular form of forced mobility, that due to migration, the use of new technologies makes it possible to remain anchored in the country of origin, while facilitating integration.
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As the United Nations General Assembly is now taking place and dozens of heads of state are about to take the podium to parade and deliver their good word, an internal note reveals the incredible unpreparedness of the United Nations to deal with the peril of climate migration.
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The links between global warming and geopolitical risks and migration are no longer to be demonstrated. The UN Security Council has just published an alarming study: if nothing is done quickly to mitigate the extreme climate risks in Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) may find itself back in a "climate crisis".
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Migrants, climatic, economic, political, is it possible to talk about them with lucidity and calm in order to reach peaceful answers? We have, with the values of our Republic, the resources to integrate differences and co-construct tomorrow in peace and lucidity. Let us become an example of societal innovation for the world.
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In an op-ed published on the World Economic Forum website, Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International and former Executive Director of Greenpeace International warns of the lack of a global treaty on the management of populations displaced by climate change. However, according to UN figures, by 2050 there will be
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At a time when the debate on the reception of migrants is heating up in France, a recent study risks complicating matters. Climate change will dramatically increase the number of people wanting to flee their countries. Their number will rise to several hundred million by 2100. Where will these populations go
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The International Space Station (ISS) will soon be given a new mission: to monitor the great migrations of animals across the planet. Birds, mammals, fish and even insects will be tracked from space. A considerable amount of data, often unpublished, will be collected to better understand the migration of animals.
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La chute du mur de Berlin symbolise, encore aujourd’hui, l’ouverture du monde. Pourtant, depuis un quart de siècle, le monde se referme. Il existerait plus de 70 murs tout autour de la planète, soit près de 40 000 km de frontières qui enferment le monde. Et le phénomène n’est pas
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The world is watching refugees flood into a Europe that is unprepared for these new arrivals. Wars and social unrest due in part to climate change - leading to conflict and food shortages - have driven migrants out of their homes in search of shelter and a better life.
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On the occasion of the publication of his last book (1), Edwy Plenel denounced: "One accepts the other on condition that he is no longer himself". Our era is living through an astonishing paradox: it wants to erase the distinctive signs of peoples by subjecting them to the constraints of a civilization
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Le migrant aujourd’hui n’est plus un déraciné ? « Ici et maintenant », cet attribut majeur de la société globale, cette promesse des technologies de l’information et de communication (qui sont programmées pour produire une téléaction immédiate, une téléprésence instantanée,) questionne plus que jamais la figure du migrant, traditionnellement attaché
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