Refugees

Migrants must be registered upon entering a country because collection of their data is necessary for administrative purposes and contributes to a host state’s security. Given their vulnerability, they depend on reliable data protection to ensure their safety. Reports show that data handling is not always as responsible as it should be.

While the situations in Syria and at the Mexican border are often understood as traditional refugee crises, the role of climate change as a factor of migration is being left out of the discussion  

Program Director Hannah Winnick writes a letter to the editor of The Atlantic regarding Graeme Wood's recent article "The Refugee Detectives."

Are we witnessing a global shift to the right? A new study on German political attitudes by the University of Leipzig suggests a loud minority may be drowning out the moderate middle. 

We are pleased to announce the nine communities that will participate in our 2017 Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange.

The Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange is a unique opportunity for leaders in Germany and the U.S. to share promising approaches to welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into their communities. Applications for the 2017 cohort are due by December 1, 2016 (Midnight, U.S. Eastern Time). 

"The “refugee crisis” is, in fact, a crisis of European politics. It reflects growing narrow-mindedness, fear of the future and national parochialism in Europe." Hbs Co-President Ralf Fücks on the future of Europe and on ways to successfully shape a European refugee policy.

After a recent visit to Washington, Sergey Lagodinsky, head of the EU/North America Department at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin, reflects on Americans’ understanding of the European refugee crisis and the failure to anticipate long-term repercussions for US foreign policy interests.

The mass-scale sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany have inspired a political blame-game—but condemning women’s conduct or Europe’s open border policies won’t serve the victims of Cologne or the refugees who continue to need our protection.