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Far right and Germany

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Anti-Immigrant Protest Turns Violent In Eastern German City Of Chemnitz

August 28, 2018 2:32 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642478937/anti-immigrant-protest-turns-violent-in-eastern-german-city-of-chemnitz

https://www.dw.com/en/violence-in-chemnitz-as-leftist-and-far-right-protesters-clash/a-45250620

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/chemnitz-right-wing-riots-enter-second-day-a-1225321.html

Silvia Faschner (her name has been changed by the editors) is standing off to the side. The 64-year-old undertaker has come with her son, who works as an elderly care nurse. She points over to the other side where a group has gathered to protest right-wing extremists in Chemnitz. And where a handful of young men from Syria have assembled under a tree.

Furious at the Federal Government

Faschner points to the Syrians and says: “I just don’t want so many foreigners coming. When I look over there, I wonder why my tax money is spent on them. They just want to be professional football players or singers, but if they actually have to do a bit of hard work, they complain that their back hurts!”

She doesn’t know the exact numbers. But according to statistics reported by the local Chemnitz newspaper Freie Presse, foreigners made up only 7.6 percent of the city’s population at the beginning of 2018, while the share of refugees was just 2.41 percent. The newspaper cited statistics compiled by Chemnitz City Hall.

http://time.com/5379861/germany-far-right-protest-chemnitz-murder/

http://time.com/01f8bb53-31f0-4b83-9b67-1787906ce1ac

 

In 1991, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group of 500 neo-Nazis attacked buildings housing refugees in Hoyerswerda, northeast of Chemnitz. Since then, there have been far-right attacks against minority groups in Leipzig, and Freital, also in Saxony. The state capital, Dresden, is the birthplace of the anti-Muslim, nationalist movement Pegida, a German acronym for a title that translates roughly as Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-chemnitz/german-government-condemns-far-right-demo-in-eastern-city-after-fatal-dispute-idUSKCN1LC1DD

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45320382

German Far-Right and Counterprotesters Clash in Chemnitz

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Russian Times

https://www.rt.com/news/436949-chemnitz-protests-police-scuffles/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/anti-fascists-clash-east-german-town-chemnitz-180828060442094.html

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https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/28/1000-citizens-german-city-riot-streets-following-fatal-stabbing-migrant/

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/10/08/police-in-eastern-german-city-of-chemnitz-conduct-major-raid-after-receiving-intel-of-possible-bombing-attack

https://townhall.com/news/world/2018/08/27/german-police-brace-for-rival-protests-after-man-killed-n2513318

https://mediaautoresponder.com/2018/08/28/germany-chemnitz-residents-react-to-violent-anti-immigration-protests/

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Daily Mail and Paris immigrants

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Daily Mail removes ‘Powder Keg Paris’ report after complaints

Article claimed 300,000 ‘illegal migrants’ were living in crime-ridden suburb of Saint-Denis

 Media editor 

The piece described a “devastating report” that suggested 300,000 “illegal migrants” were living in the suburb of Saint-Denis, north of Paris, where drug dealing, crime and poverty were rising due to the “quite simple” explanation of “immigration on a mammoth scale”.

The Daily Mail article was followed up by other news sources, including the Sun, and was covered in the US on Fox News, where a host commented on the immigration statistics by saying: “They don’t really have their arms around that one, do they?”

Spain Becomes New Target for Migrants

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Spain Becomes New Target for Migrants

Although the number of migrants making their way across the Mediterranean to Europe has fallen drastically, the preferred overseas route has now moved westward to the strait between Morocco and Spain. Now Rome, Madrid and North African countries are battling to find a solution.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/refugees-now-aim-for-spain-in-their-migration-route-a-1221537.html#ref=rss

Across the strait, in Spain, the consequences are coming into view: Last Saturday, on the beach at Zahora, near Cape Trafalgar, about 50 refugees sprinted among the nearly naked swimmers and nudists as their wooden boat reached the coast. There was an uproar on the beach and some of the vacationers filmed the scene. The images, which were posted on the internet soon after, show the collision between two worlds.

Melilla

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Europe's most fortified border is in Africa

On a wedge of land at the northern tip of the African continent lies a little piece of Europe. The city of Melilla is one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, a gateway to Europe in North Africa, and as such – it is one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world. Johnny Harris traveled to this corner of the world to report on the African migrants who try to make the dangerous crossing over the border and into Europe. And the political climate that seeks to keep them on the other side of the fence.

Posted by Vox on Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Nationalism and Migration

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Gisy: „1% der Menschheit besitzt mehr als die übrigen 99%”

„1% der Menschheit besitzt mehr als die übrigen 99%”: Gregor Gysi, Präsident der „Europäischen Linken”, sieht Ungleichheit als zentrales Problem. Er übt scharfe Kritik an Nationalisten, „die immer auf die schwächsten Migranten draufhauen”:

Posted by Zeit im Bild on Monday, March 26, 2018

REFUGEES AND FORCED IMMIGRATION ’18

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REFUGEES AND FORCED IMMIGRATION ’18

International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugee and Forced Immigration
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Istanbul, Turkey

WE REMIND YOU that the ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN POSTPONED to 17th of AUGUST!!!

All papers will be published in the proceedings e-book (with an ISBN number), which will be given as a DVD at the conference. Participants can also apply to INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; DAKAM’s Journal to be reviewed.

Enquiries: info@dakam.org
Web address: https://www.dakamconferences.org/refugeesandforcedimmigration
Sponsored by: DAKAM

RE-EUROPEIZING EUROPE

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RE-EUROPEIZING EUROPE

http://almudenas.website/index.php/2018/04/18/re-europeizing-europe/

In the scholar arena of political studies, the notion of Populism seems clear. It is generally used when it comes to defining either political regimes headed by strong leaders who pretend to represent ‘the people’ as the case of Peron in Argentina, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and other leaders from different countries. Also, the political discourse, particularly of the far-right, populism arises during times of economic difficulty, as it is the case in several European countries like France, Austria, Hungary, The Netherlands or the independence movement of Catalonia in Spain. When the subjects who speak are the political actors, it is observed that the term ‘populist’ is used by both the right and the left, to stigmatize the opponent, or to self-defend against adverse stigmatization.

For the right-wing, the left is populist because it manipulates the working and less fortunate classes

for the left-wing, the right is populist because it manipulates the middle classes with discourses seeking to generate the most primitive emotion: the fear.