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The future of migration

2015 has seen the biggest refugee crisis in Europe. In 2014 the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution increased by 8.3 million, reaching a total of 59.5 million, with 6.47 million internally displaced in Syria and Afghanistan (OCHA 2015). Yet, despite this well known calamity, Europe and the world were unprepared for the refugee […]

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Mobile Publics: Futures

Mobile publics or ‘issue publics’ are coming of age. After more than a decade of gathering in hybrid digital public spaces, what are the promise, premises, risks of mobile publics in the future? With Belgians responding to calls not to tweet about emergency operations during the #brusselslockdown with images of cats, what are the effects […]

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