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
PlusRelease 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
Economic researchers have found a systematic link between periods of drought and the outbreak of riots in sub-Saharan Africa. The scientific community has been hypothesizing for several years that there is a link between droughts and the outbreak of riots. In order to formally verify this hypothesis
PlusIn 2007, the BBC named Ioane Teitiota, a Kiribati national from the Pacific island of Kiribati, the first climate refugee. Teitiota and his family left for New Zealand in 2007 and applied for asylum as a climate refugee. He was returned to his home island by the New Zealand courts in September 2007.
PlusThe 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 A considerable amount of data, often unpublished, will be collected to better understand the migration of animals.
PlusAs thousands of refugees driven by war and oppression continue to flock to Europe from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, researchers have just announced that what we are seeing today is nothing compared to what will happen next. Indeed, in a relatively
PlusBalance is off. Global warming multiplies crisis situations. By cascade effect. It must be admitted that the wars in Syria and Iraq, like the exactions perpetrated in East Africa, are one of the consequences of droughts and loss of subsistence. And the inhabitants of the atolls and
PlusThe 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.
PlusOn 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
Plus« Transition énergétique » : depuis quelques années l’expression fait florès en Europe (e.g. L’Energiewende en Allemagne, le débat national sur la transition énergétique en France) et ailleurs, comme la réponse au double défi posé par le réchauffement climatique et par les pics énergétiques. Mais, derrière un quasi-consensus sur la
PlusLe 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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