The Seeds of Abolition Analysis While millions protested the murder of George Floyd and racist police brutality all over the world, there has been a lack of acknowledgement of the injustices towards Black women, and of their leading roles in social movements. Edna Bonhomme analyses the significance of Black women within social movements throughout history until today. By Edna Bonhomme
Black Lives Matter and British Policing Analysis The summer of 2020 will be remembered for the period that saw the largest anti-racist protests in British history. Dr. Adam Elliott-Cooper, sociologist at Greenwich University in London, gives an overview about the history and current state of the Black Lives Matter movement and institutional racism in the UK. By Adam Elliott-Cooper
Racism and the Infrastructure of Injustice - in the United States and Europe Editorial The murder of George Floyd amidst of a global pandemic has triggered a global conversation among the Black diaspora and its progressive allies. In the editorial for our #BlackLivesMatter focus, award-winning journalist Gary Younge analyses the current debates in the U.S. and in Europe. By Gary Younge
#BlackLivesMatter: Entanglements and continuities of racism Focal Point The focus deals with the global #BlackLivesMatter movement as well as structural and institutional racism from a European and German perspective.
Antigypsyism and Language In his essay, Dr. Hristo Kyuchukov describes discrimination through the devaluation of Romani as a language. He emphasizes the urgency of establishing language teaching in Romani and sees the appreciation of the language as both an appreciation of Roma culture and a means of combating “antigypsism”. By Hristo Kyuchukov
Care Crisis: Racialised Women at the Crossroads of Migration, Labour Market and Family Policies E-Paper Besides job creations and responding to care needs, a central argument justifying the development of in-home care has been that of gender equality. In her paper, Emilia Roig argues that the stated policy objective of “freeing” the productive potential of the more highly-skilled women - as announced by the European Commission – widens the gender pay gap, instead of fostering gender equality in the workplace. By Emilia Roig
Immigrants in French politics Laure Michon analysiert die politische Repräsentation von MigrantInnen auf der Ebene der Kommunal- und Regionalparlamente sowie der Nationalversammlung in Frankreich und nennt Gründe für die nach wie vor schwache Inklusion dieses Bevölkerungsteils.
Opening up the University: Measures for equalizing access to higher education Jan O. Jonsson erläutert die Studiensituation in seinem Heimaltland Schweden, das beim Hochschulzugang durch Berufsqualifizierung oder der alternativen Hochschulprüfung als vorbildhaft gilt. Sein Fazit: Je früher die Vorauswahl zur höheren Bildung stattfindet, desto stärker fällt der sozioökonomische Hintergrund ins Gewicht. Die Öffnung des Hochschulzugangs kann daher durch ein Aufschieben der Vorauswahl begünstigt werden.
Globalization and Education: The Integration of Immigrant Youth in Europe Maurice Crul von der Universität Amsterdam unterstreicht die Wichtigkeit einer intensiveren europaweiten Zusammenarbeit der Forschungsinstutionen bei empirischen Vergleichsstudien, die den Wissenstransfer über erfolgreiche Projekte und Instrumente fördern.