Argentina conducts census of its Afro community for the first time
The South American country is asking citizens about their ethnic identity in what scholars hope will be a change from Eurocentric views on how the nation was built
xenophobia
benefit of having immigrants
training for doctors 1885
The Odyssey animated movie
https://www.yorck.de/en/films/the-odyssey
the story of the filmmaker, whose grandparents escaped the beginning of the 20th century pogroms in Odessa is not less interesting of the story about the movie and the movie itself
Le Pen
What a Le Pen Win Would Mean for Europe
Right-wing populist candidate Marine Le Pen has a chance of winning the presidential election in France this Sunday. If she prevails over Emmanuel Macron, France would become another country and Europe a different continent.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/marine-le-pen-and-the-french-vote-what-would-her-election-mean-for-france-and-europe-a-e7f83349-29fd-4b14-8fa0-f9595344f6fb#ref=rss
A President Le Pen has said she would let her compatriots vote in a referendum on how many immigrants should be allowed into the country as her first official act. She wants to severely restrict social benefits for foreigners. Under her leadership, there will be a “policy of national priority,” she has announced. The candidate wants to give preferential treatment to French women and men in the allocation of jobs and social housing. It would be a “France First” policy. But it would also violate the principle of equality enshrined in the French constitution.
Ukraine is about identity
Ukraine is not about territory, it’s about identity
https://iai.tv/articles/ukraine-is-not-about-territory-its-about-identity-auid-2099
His talk of ‘unity’ was ideological code not for re-creating the Soviet Union out of nostalgia for the Marxist-Leninist state. It was code for legitimating his dream of an ethno-nationalist Orthodox Christian mega state, where the category ‘Ukrainian’ is reducible and subsumable all-the-way-down to the category ‘Russian’. Putin’s notion of unity – his ‘bad Hegelianism’ – is fascistic, insofar as it seeks the erasure of individuality and difference under the blanket of universality and identity.
migration Turkey Austria
Ukrainian refugees in Hungary
Budapest, a transit station for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war
Human Rights Watch has noted that the Hungarian government is not providing them with proper information about their right to one year of international temporary protection, which would give them access to healthcare and education services.