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Two stories have dominated the British news agenda this summer — the migration crisis in Europe and the Labour leadership contest.

At the height ofEurope's migration crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants — most from the Middle East and Africa — arrived at the continent by land and sea.

Not exact matches

HSBC just published a note that sums up in five short sentences the one thing everyone is getting wrong about the European refugee migration crisis: This is going to be a great thing for Europe.

European Union leaders have agreed on a common position to put to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a bid to curb the migration crisis, Luxembourg's premier said at a Brussels summit early Friday morning.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

For example, when the big LDI migration toward credit started around 2008 in the aftermath of the financial crisis, we had already begun to position our strong resources in the credit space to apply them in LDI and quickly help clients transition their portfolios.

It is timed just before the G7 summit in Italy on 26 — 27 May where crucial matters, such as food security, crisis situations in sub-Saharan Africa and migration will be discussed.

Asked to summarize the primary and most fundamental Lega position, I would identify an urgency to alert Italy to the crisis being created by Europe's massive uptick in inward migration from culturally disjunctive places at a time when the continent is apparently intent upon dismantling its own civilization.

The migration crisis of 2015 is in part a crisis because the numbers arriving have overwhelmed the systems that European states, particularly those bordering the Mediterranean, have put in place to regulate admissions.

This is not such an outrageous demand, given the clumsiness of central EU institutions to cope with recent crises in the fields of energy, migration, and the financial sector.

The project therefore studies how the many ways people understand European history has changed after decisive moments — EU enlargement in 2004, terror attacks in London and Madrid, the financial crisis of 2008, the migration crisis of 2013/14, or Brexit.

The Ukrainian crisis has triggered a redirection of migration patterns in the post-Soviet space, affecting both host countries and suppliers alike.

While Dadaab and the European migration crisis get the headlines, more than 300,000 Darfuri refugees in Chad have been largely forgotten and left to fend...

We are also proposing a far reaching partnership on how we protect Europe together from the threats we face in the world today; how we work together to promote our shared values and interests abroad; whether security, spreading the rule of law, dealing with emerging threats, handling the migration crisis or helping countries out of poverty.

President Akufo - Addo and Jeremy Corbyn also discussed issues bordering on the deepening of democracy amongst member states of the Commonwealth, the worsening humanitarian crises in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria, United Nations Reforms, in particular reform of the UN Security Council, BREXIT, an increase in trade co-operation between Ghana and the UK, and migration.

Topical lectures will include discussions on the responsibility of the scientific community to address sexual harassment by Meg Urry of Yale University; solutions to the opioid crisis by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse; the future of science in Africa by Thomas Kariuki of the African Academy of Sciences; forensic science and the law by federal district judge Jed Rakoff; music for brain health by Nina Kraus of Northwestern University; the violence of migration by anthropologist Jason De León of the University of Michigan; and more.

The problems on water are a crossroad in the middle of our time: ecological crisis, poverty, migrations, climate change, etc..

The video is supported by teachers» notes, providing discussion topics and ideas for activities to explore the refugee crisis in a measured and sensitive way, whether with a focus on Syria or the wider subject of migration and refugees.

French and German friends keep asking me to explain why this should be, almost as much as they ask me to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S.. All I can say it that it is another symptom of this Age of Disruption, with globalization, internet, smart phones, automation, mass migration and the 2008 financial crisis all combining into a perfect storm of discontent with traditional institutions and politics.

In two new film installations and a suite of photographs for his first New York solo exhibition, Akomfrah shifts his focus to the ill effects of displacement: One of the works looks at a 400 - year period of migration from Barbados, Mali, and Iraq; the other takes place at an abandoned airport outside Athens amid Greece's financial crisis.

Border Zones and Liminal Bodies This screening features short video art pieces by 12 U.S. and international artists that invite viewers to contemplate contemporary issues, such as migration and refugee crises, disability and the body in movement, feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, water insecurity, and other issues.

Inspired by the international migration crisis and tense sociopolitical battles surrounding the issue in the United States and worldwide, the artist has conceived of this ambitious, multi-site project as a way of transforming the metal wire security fence into a powerful artistic symbol.

This exhibition is rooted in contemporary events that deal with a current humanitarian crisis of migration in the Middle East, but Peters» work captures the unspoken side of this narrative.

The topicality of the global migrant crisis was evident elsewhere in the activities at this year's Frieze London: a series of Frieze Talks invited speakers and the public to discuss the meaning of» Borderlands», while the Collections Fund at Frieze, supported by the Contemporary Art Society, enabled the UK's Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art to make acquisitions at the fair of works specifically addressing themes of migration and displacement by John Akomfrah and Kader Attia.

In 2011, Bokaer began to work with Soundwalk Collective, a group of nomadic composers of Mediterranean descent, to create a live performance work addressing the urgency of the current Mediterranean migration crisis, including the displacement of people.

From mass surveillance to the migration crisis, anxiety about a world in political turmoil permeated this year's Art Basel, the world's largest contemporary and modern art fair in Switzerland.

After peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of large - scale migration to the suburbs, a downturn in industry and commerce as businesses left for cheaper places, an increase in crime and social disorder, and an upturn in its welfare burden — all of which led to a fiscal crisis that pushed the city on the verge of complete collapse.

Continuing his ongoing engagement with the themes of migration, expulsion, and translocation, Ai draws on his own experiences of migration and the complexities of cultural and geographical politics to address current social issues, in particular the refugee crisis.

By situating half the exhibition in one of Europe's presently crisis - plagued countries — in the midst of discussions about migration policy, continental cohesion, and moral obligations — an urgency that it could not have developed in Kassel alone is attained, and harnessed.

This encampment explores how the queers and activists who struggled through the crisis of the 80s and 90s are surviving / dealing / getting by in a present marked by gentrification, evictions, the migration of more and more of our lives onto online spaces, pronounced income inequality, the advent of high - deductible health care, and a political climate that asks us to celebrate the legalization of same sex marriage but leave behind many of our radical queer aspirations.

This recognition is achingly urgent today in an era of global migrations, heightened awareness of inequalities, and San José's own housing crisis.

Hence their exhibition Life In The UK / Balance Of Possibilities which, by making the gallery into a pretend visa application centre, reflects on crises of global economic migration.

Literature and global events, such as the migration crisis, have also fueled works in the exhibition.

The exhibitions seek to bring attention, knowledge, debate and reflection on this contemporary global crisis as well as the issues of the migration system in Denmark.

Various & Gould is a German artistic duo best known for their mural depiction of serious themes like migration, (sexual) identity, death and financial crisis, doing it in a playful, intuitive way.

In addition to outlining Alshaibi's intricate sense of formalism, the photographs, installations, and videos of Collapse indicate the underlying themes that have shaped an ongoing narrative in her work, as the artist traces the consequences of war, the psychic effects of forced migration, and the ecological crises that have resulted from such manmade disasterIn addition to outlining Alshaibi's intricate sense of formalism, the photographs, installations, and videos of Collapse indicate the underlying themes that have shaped an ongoing narrative in her work, as the artist traces the consequences of war, the psychic effects of forced migration, and the ecological crises that have resulted from such manmade disasterin her work, as the artist traces the consequences of war, the psychic effects of forced migration, and the ecological crises that have resulted from such manmade disasters.

In timely fashion, famed Chinese artists and activist Ai Weiwei will build over 100 fences around New York City, inspired by the international migration crisis and political turmoil facing the US.

The dramatic crisis in European culture drew American artists closer to the spirit of continental modernism, and migration of European intellectuals and artists to these shores renewed vital artistic contacts that had lain moribund for many years.

Climate - induced migration is having a moment in the light, with press reports on Syria's migration crisis occasionally featuring the climate - change angle.

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But a UK - based group, the Climate and Migration Coalition, has welcomed the minister's reference to «humanitarian visas», which it says avoids one of the toughest problems in climate migration law — how to differentiate a group of people who are fleeing climate change from those escaping crises driven by other forces.

The increase in flood risk may become unsustainable in regions where the combination of socio - economic and climatic drivers trigger large - scale climatic crises involving conflicts and mass migration, according to the authors.

While the country's brutal civil war is often presented as the cause of this mass migration, a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be rooted in an earlier environmental crisis, one linked to land degradation and long - term drought in the Fertile Crescent.

We think another easily - overlooked factor — one that is almost too simple for science — plays a far larger role in the Arab Spring and the current migration crisis: Demography.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierIn his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glacierin Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.

The devastating effects of sea level rise and extreme weather events have the potential to result in migration, humanitarian crises and international conflict.

All of these effects can lead to population migration within and across international borders, spur crises, and amplify or accelerate conflict in countries or regions already facing instability and fragility.

The Court held that the Commission was correct in applying the international relations exception to five out of the eight relevant documents on the basis that their release would have the potential to seriously undermine the relationship between the EU and Turkey as it relates to the highly sensitive issue of the management of the Syrian migration crisis.

These documents included inter alia a joint note that contained in essence the political objectives of the EU in tackling the migration crisis and an email that contained the initial legal reasoning of how to implement the return and resettlement objective mentioned above.

This is a clear step towards a more sustained labor mobility package which had been proposed in the Migration agenda which sought to convert the migration crisis into a «well - managed resource» mindful of the long term demographic challenges facing the EU as a whole.