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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 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.

The European migration crisis of 2015 has created a huge political challenge for the states that have to respond to the mass migration of people from the Middle East and elsewhere across the continent.

Not exact matches

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.

The UK's Brexit vote is also one of the most potent signs that the public is increasingly dissatisfied with politicians and the current migration crisis.

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.

This raises the prospect of a humanitarian crisis on the island and a mass wave of migration to the mainland.

Wall Street's migration began after the last financial crisis as banks and money managers looked to trim expenses or take advantage of lower tax rates.

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.

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.

Two possible events stood out for the group: firstly, the chance of a major economic and political crisis caused by the election of anti-EU parties to the Italian Parliament - and their likely outright rejection of any financial controls being placed on them; and secondly, the chance of further waves of migration into the EU, via Turkey.

Posted on Leave.EU's Facebook page, the two - minute long video depicts images of the recent migration crisis sweeping Europe.

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

EU nations have grown unnerved by the continent's worst migration crisis since World War Two, one that has jeopardised the bloc's Schengen zone of passport - free travel over national borders that has contributed greatly to its vaunted prosperity.

The party will then face many of the same challenges as the current government: an ageing population; straining public services; high migration from poorer EU states; persistent inequality; and the economic and fiscal overhang of the worst crisis for 80 years.

Not designed for an humanitarian crisis like that which has engulfed Europe, the regulation places the burden of a mass overland migration on the EU's border states, and it has been emphatically disregarded by Germany as they continue to lead Europe's disjointed response to the crisis.

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.

The President added that discussion on migrations and refugees can not be complete without also including discussion about the nature of African economies, as it is only such a comprehensive discussion, which leads to appropriate policies, that will enable satisfactory solutions to be found to the crises of refugees and migration, especially from the African continent.

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.

Dr Simon Parker, Director of York's School of Social and Political Sciences and lead investigator for the Precarious Trajectories research project on the Mediterranean migration crisis, is one of four experts to add their voice to UNICEF Innocenti's Research Watch.

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

These three news articles consider the current refugee crisis: Europe engulfed by migration crisis EU on the brink of failure warns president The p...

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.

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.

Through disparate yet interlinking imagery, Akomfrah weaves together cruel visions of the past with current issues around global migration, the refugee crisis, slavery, and ecological concerns.

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.

Exploring the historic arc of migration, Akomfrah's work is particularly pertinent given the migration issues and refugee crisis — and surrounding humanitarian concerns and political debates — currently dominating international cooperation and nation - state decision making.

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 migratioOf Possibilities which, by making the gallery into a pretend visa application centre, reflects on crises of global economic migratioof global economic migration.

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 disasters.

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.

If this migration crisis is a climate migration crisis, then it also highlights the lack of a regime to deal with climate - induced migration.

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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.

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 glaciers.

Day two saw more introduction to some of the cross-cutting systemic issues that intersect with the climate struggle, with the migration crisis, the EU - US trade talks and more we on the agenda.

With workshops on intersectionality and migration struggles, young people from across the continent and beyond worked on broadening the scope of our movement and getting to grips with how our mainstream economic and political systems have produced the climate crisis, and how this intersects with the mainstream European climate movement.