Refusing refugees: Ranabir Samaddar on forced migration

Europe is facing a demographic crisis, resulting in suffocating labour shortages, and yet, incoming migration is more and more rejected in mainstream politics. Can the EU come to terms with this great contradiction without an implosion? Editor-in-chief Réka Kinga Papp asks Ranabir Samaddar, distinguished chair in migration and forced migration studies of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group in Kalkota, India. He also was a visiting fellow earlier this year at Eurozine’s long-time collaborator, the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.