General
Video: Where are the Syrian Refugees?
Watch online until 9/16; w/educational materials (Lesson Plan, Discussion Questions, Reading List)
01/02/16 CNN, Germany Asylum Rules Europe
09/27/15 Aljazeera, The Refugee’s Passage to Europe
09/27/15 Vox World, The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Explained In One Map
09/28/15 The New York Times, The Migrant Crisis in Europe: Readers’ Questions Answered
09/25/15 The Guardian (Opinion Piece), The Refugee Crisis Gives Europe The Chance To Evolve
09/25/15 BBC, Europe Gets 8,000 Refugees Daily
01/28/16 BBC, Migrant Crisis, Migration to Europe Explained In Graphics
09/22/15 The New York Times, Plan on Migrants Strains the Limits of European Unity
09/09/15 NPR, Surge Of Refugees In Europe Could Be Just The First Wave
09/09/15 NPR, Gulf States Taking Heat For Not Resettling Syrian Refugees
09/08/15 NPR, The Migrant Crisis By The Numbers
09/09/15 Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, EU Proposes Refugee Crisis Plan
09/09/15 RFERL, EU Commission Chief Unveils Mandatory Migration Crisis Plan
09/09/2015 RFERL, Central Europe’s Short Memory On Refugees
Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
09/11/15Thesis on Migration Crisis
05/2010Thesis on Seasonal Migration
Resource Page for Migration Crisis
07/15/2015 Migration Glossary (in Greek)
Panels and Roundtables
10/01/15 Indiana University, Roundtable Discussion “Europe’s Refugee Crisis”
12/02/15 Council for European Studies, “Framing Migration Rhetoric and Reality in Europe” series, several pieces
12/02/15 Kennedy Center (at BYU), Panel Discussion “Syrian Refugee Crisis”
10/13/15 Berkeley, Panel “Migrant Crisis in Europe”
10/22/15 Berkeley, Panel “The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Regionalism, Race and Reform in the EU and US”
11/03/15 NYU , Panel blog post “CEMS Discusses the Migrant Crisis”
Academic Pieces and Resources
Zahra, Tara (History, UC) “The Return of No-Man’s Land: Europe’s Asylum Crisis and Historical Memory”
UIUC Migration Guides, Central Asian Sovereignty in the Face of Massive Dislocation
Josef Borocz’s Personal Blog, Global Social Change
News Sources and OP-Eds by Region
Denmark
Denmark Statistics of Immigrants
Denmark Statistics of Asylum Seekers and Residency Permits
The Local, “Denmark Grants Asylum to Nine of Ten Refugees”
EurActiv, “Denmark Advertises How Bad The Country is to Refugees”
The Guardian, “Denmark to Slash Benefits for Asylum Seekers in Attempt to Deter Refugees”
BBC, “Migrant Crisis: Denmark MP Consider Seizing Valuables”
Finland
Acquiring asylum and quotas in Finland
11/2015 Washington Post, Humanitarian Story of those arriving in Tornio, “End of The Line”
09/30/15 Yahoo News, “Finland Suddenly Top Choice for Iraqi Migrants”
General, Finnish acceptance of asylum seekers
Hostility towards refugees/migrants http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34358410
Statistics on asylum seekers and refugees http://www.migri.fi/about_us/statistics/statistics_on_asylum_and_refugees
Finnish demographics: http://www.stat.fi/til/muutl/index_en.html
Kurds in Finland- an example of previous immigration experiences. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-29904-4_102
Hungary
BBC, “Migrant Crisis: People Treated “Like Animals” In Hungary Camp” Article and Video
Mother Jones, Photo Essay, “21 Photos That Capture the Heartbreak of Europe’s Refugee Crisis”
NPR, “Stranded In Hungarian Camps, Migrants Press To Leave”
CNN, Hungarian Camerwoman Kicks, Trips Refugees (video)
The Guardian, “Hungary Closes Main Budapest Station To Refugees”
Open Democracy, “Looking Through the Fence: Hungary’s Refugee Psyche”
12/18/15 Hungarian Spectrum, “Hungarian’s Fear of Migrants and Terrorism”
Germany
Book, Philip L. Martin, “Germany: Reluctant Land of Immigration”
BBC, “EU Migrant Crisis: Germany Sends Migrants Back to Austria”
Yahoo News, German Minister Proposes Europe Petrol Tax to Pay For Migrant Crisis
Sexual Assaults in Germany
BBC, “EU Migrant Crisis: Germany Sends Migrants Back to Austria”
The Economist, “Cologne’s Aftershocks”
The Daily Beast, “Why We Can’t Stay Silent on Germany’s Mass Sex Assaults”
Breitbart, “Cologne Police Have Now Received Over 1,000 Complaints After New Year’s Sexual Assaults”
Breitbart, “German Gun Ownership Skyrockets to 301,000 in Response to Migrant Crisis”
Greece
The Guardian, Migrants Try To Charge Macedonian Police Lines At Greek Border
Balkans Region
BBC, Migrant Crisis: Explaining The Exodus From The Balkans