Migrationspanik: Wie Abschottungspolitik die autoritäre Wende befördert

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War, displacement, climate crisis, pandemic, artificial intelligence and international armament - the major geopolitical upheavals of our time are creating fear, uncertainty and loneliness. In an increasingly confusing world, there is a growing desire for a "strong hand" at the borders and a tightly drawn "we" within. Judith Kohlenberger's perceptive analysis uses the rampant migration panic to trace the incipient and, in some cases, already completed authoritarian turn that has also taken hold of the bourgeois milieu. And shows that there is only one, crystal-clear way out.

Judith Kohlenberger is a migration researcher at the Institute for Social Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Senior Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) and Affiliated Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors Center Berlin. Her research interests are flight and displacement, integration of refugees in European host countries (with a focus on education, health and gender) and cultural crisis narratives. She is a member of the Integration Council of the City of Vienna, co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung and host of the podcast Aufnahmebereit. Her work has been awarded the Kurt Rothschild Prize and the Anas Shakfeh Prize for services to human rights, democracy and the promotion of the rule of law. Her book Das Fluchtparadox was Austrian Science Book of the Year 2023 and nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize.

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