From the perspective of deportees, a certain amount of luck has been needed to be in the right place at the right time in order to be saved.
The ‘prostitutes protection law’, passed 7 June by the German parliament, is a huge step backwards for sex workers rights.
Germany's parliament will likely pass new legislation today that severely infringes on sex worker rights and increases their vulnerability.
It is hard to shake the feeling that the real reason why the Böhmermann crisis has exceeded all rational proportions has more to do with German dissatisfaction with Merkel than with Erdogan.
The 1951 Geneva Convention on Political Asylum was a typical creation of the Cold War: the system cannot deal with the huge population flows now permanently characteristic of our world.
National borders are a reality – and for most people, they are something that is taken for granted and indeed necessary. But are they really the normal state of affairs? A radical futuristic plan for a borderless Europe.
On the recent electoral successes of Germany's extreme right and its ideological background.
Recent elections in three German states were widely considered a referendum on chancellor Merkel’s immigration policies, much to the benefit of her own supporters and her nationalist critics. Any place for solidarity with refugees?
Official anticommunism never contented itself with making an equation between fascism and communism. It gravitated toward depicting communism as an absolute evil, whose enemies became new role models.
