Prof. Dr. Sylvain Sebert - Corona, epidemics and the psychosocial context from an epidemiologist perspective
The pandemic of Covid-19 imposes an unprecedented threat to our societies. To identify the causes and anticipate the consequences we may consider two types of exposures: The viral, rapidly spreading, ...
21 Touko 202034min
Prof. Dr. Aitor Ibarrola - The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on forced migration
In the last couple of weeks, I have revisited Susan Sontag's famous essay on the uses of illness/disease as controlling metaphors in the hope that it may raise my students’ consciousness of the ways i...
13 Touko 202038min
Piaras Maceinri - Covid 19 and vulnerable migrant populations: the specific case of asylum seekers in Ireland’s Direct Provision system
Asylum seekers in Ireland are housed in high-density communal accommodation contracted by the State from private sector providers under a system known as Direct Provision. Residents of DP centres may...
8 Touko 202058min
Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries - How migration influences Corona and vice-versa
The Corona Virus Covid-19 is changing and challenging the social, economic, cultural and political world we are living in. Our everyday lifeworld was shocked by friends and relatives affected or threa...
4 Touko 202044min
