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Category Archives: Issue 3 – Migration
Tear Down the Walls
The issue of ‘migration’, in particular ‘immigration’ has been much at the forefront of European political polemic in recent years, attracting strong opinions on either side of the debate. Among the political discourse, particularly since the recent economic downturn, there has been a strong anti-immigration argument. Not here. When it comes to taking a stance [...]
Visualization Of Cultures In Motion
The European Union exemplifies an entity of a mixture of people that is determined by an intercultural society, which is often said to be the future of our globe. The Netherlands represents probably the most multicultural country within this bigger entity. Migrants from all over the world, including the writers and contributors of Maas-Media, have [...]
Guarding the Gates
Ever since the advent of modernization, technology has been a primary ally to achieve political goals. It goes without saying that it plays a fundamental role in dealing with migration matters too. Within the process of selection of the migrants permitted to stay and those having to return home from European soil, technology is what [...]
Posted in Issue 3 - Migration, Technology
Tagged Europe, Fortress Europe, Immigration, Technology
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Curry and Identity
The centrality of food and consumption for most issues of social and cultural concern can, to my opinion, not be over-emphasized. Food practices are constitutive of social identities and cultural differentiation. “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”, a phrase originally coined in the 1820s by Brillat-Savarin, a French [...]
Posted in Food & Consumption, Issue 3 - Migration
Tagged Food & Consumption, Immigration
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Editorial III
Dear Reader,
welcome to the World Community of Migrants…
…that you are part of yourself! This Maas-Media issue is about migration. Discussions among Europeans about migration tend to convey a sense of urgency. Western nations states apparently are on the fringe of something dramatic. Either of exploding from the latest influx of migrants or of imploding from [...]
A Right to have Rights?
The article of the free section of the current MaasMedia Issue on Migration deals with the arrest of an Armenian family in Maastricht with the purpose of their detention. It is written by Sophie Hinger, a student at the University College Maastricht and member of the migration research group under the guidance of dr. René Gabriels. [...]
Posted in Free, Issue 3 - Migration
Tagged Europe, Fortress Europe, Free, Immigration
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