...xpressed similar nativist sentiments. This represents a marked departure from the idyllic progressive toleration often touted by the Old World. Anti-immigrant and pro-nativist speech has become part of the everyday in western European politics. The ubiquitous yet oft-dismissed Dutch politician Geert Wilders became a surprise kingmaker in the Netherlands after last year’s snap elections, in spite (or because) of his inflammatory rhetoric claiming...
...n Institute. The paper is co-authored by Professor David R. Cameron of Yale University. Professor Orenstein’s research ranges from international economic policy to pension reform and economic transition in Central and Eastern European states. Orenstein began his presentation with a comment on the nature of previous research done on the democratic transition of former Soviet states to democracy. Much of this body of work, he noted, has been on the...
Every day, the newspaper is full of more disheartening realities from the continent that threaten to shatter the teenage American perception of Europe as a bastion of indiscriminate sexual opportunity, sandy beaches, and wine-splattered tablecloths. Of course, Europe has never been the Xanadu that American pop culture has painted it as for decades, despite the splendid languor and unmistakable placidity in the European disposition that evades ev...
...ration conjured up a reality I had witnessed firsthand while studying abroad in Italy last semester. Economic and political disequilibrium between Western and Eastern Europe has spurred the immigration of less wealthy Eastern Europeans to the more affluent West. These Eastern European immigrants are often so eager for a better life that they disregard the issue of legality, and many of those who settle in the “New World” run great risks. It is an...
...eds of Roma last year. Although there have been large Roma populations in France for centuries, French authorities are now cracking down on communities tracing their origins to Romania and Bulgaria. While – as citizens of the European Union — the Roma have the right to immigrate freely to France, French authorities have chosen to disregard this fact. French authorities claim that they gave the Roma three months to find work, which many failed to...
...th now is really happening everywhere, in myriad shapes and forms. It is a zero-sum game of demographic musical chairs; in the crudest of terms spoken by the most reactionary among us, it is Mexicans going to America, Eastern Europeans going to Western Europe, and Chinese and Indian people going everywhere. It is 7 billion people on this planet and counting (lest we forget the debate that sparked) – and it is generating plenty of questions, but d...
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