At the height of the so-called 2015 refugee crisis, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal
Republic of Germany, is thought to have opened the country's borders to a million refugees …

This article sheds light on the socio‐cultural dynamics Merkel's open‐door policy set in
motion in Austria. Based on the Anti‐Merkel discourses that came to infiltrate Austrian …

This article examines how hope for a different culture of hospitality has been articulated
during the long summer of migration of 2015 in Germany by juxtaposing Angela Merkel's …

Merkel's mind during the turbulent summer of 2015, as roughly a million refugees fled to
Europe by land and by sea, hoping to find peace, security, and a chance to build new lives …

Germany has received more than 1 million refugees in 2015. While international
commentators have admired Chancellor Merkel's response to this “crisis,” the situation is …

This interview reviews some reflections from Kim Rygiel's work on theorizing the struggles of
migrants at the borders of Europe from a politics of citizenship perspective as forms of …

Unification triggered profound changes in the geographical, generational and global context
that had shaped restrictive German policies regarding citizenship, immigration, asylum and …

Many scholars of international political sociology have turned to biopolitics in their attempts
to understand the “European migration/refugee crisis” that has unfolded in and around the …

Confronted with the violent and obscene images that have been reaching us ever since the
influx of refugees entered new dimensions this summer, we may wonder: Why is it that …

98 Social Movements chancellor Angela Merkel, still on her routine schedule in the German
province, sees the first images of the march on her iPad and immediately gets on the phone …