Lessons for Ukraine from the Rohingya crisis: even sympathetic communities can lose their enthusiasm for hosting refugees

By Palash Kamruzzaman, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of South Wales
Bulbul Siddiqi, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sociology, North South University

Countries in Europe have opened their borders and homes to Ukrainians fleeing Russian aggression. Of course, Ukrainians are far from the first group of refugees to need shelter and welcome from host countries.

Refugees are vulnerable people who, because of limited opportunities in refugee camps, can be exposed to human trafficking, criminal activities, drug peddling, prostitution and radicalisation. There have already been concerns that Ukrainian refugees are being targeted for human or sex trafficking by organised…

Read complete article

~	Inside Germany's Orwellian crackdown on Palestine Congress

~	Newly uncovered Helen of Troy fresco shows Pompeii’s elite were eager for ancient Greek stories about women

~	London Marathon: how visually impaired people run

~	Crucial building blocks of life on Earth can more easily form in outer space – new research

~	Hard work and happy accidents: why do so many of us prefer ‘difficult’ analogue technology?

~	How a teenager helped identify a new species of giant marine reptile

~	Cities with Black women police chiefs had less street violence during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests

~	5 years after the Mueller report into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election on behalf of Trump: 4 essential reads

~	AI chatbots refuse to produce ‘controversial’ output − why that’s a free speech problem

~	3 things to learn about patience − and impatience − from al-Ghazali, a medieval Islamic scholar