Contesting Flexible Solidarity: Poland and the “Migration Crisis”

The Eurozone Crisis: Psychological Mechanisms Undermining and Supporting European Solidarity

Europe has become a vivid example of intergroup dynamics with all the risks and chances it holds for peaceful and respectful co-existence. While Europe as a superordinate social category has the capability of solidarity between its subcategories (i.e., nations), negative emotions and behaviors among the countries’ citizens have become more prevalent throughout the emerging crisis. This article ...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

The Global Health Crisis of Solidarity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Differential pricing: solidarity at times of financial crisis

The financial crisis which has hit Europe (and beyond) in 2008 has been described as a “health system shock” by the WHO which has urged EU Member States to ensure that the national healthcare systems would continue to promote universal access to health services by increasing efficiency in the health sector. The challenge for Member States is to ensure access to innovative medicines for unmet me...

Russia's Population Crisis: The Migration Dimension

• Increasing mortality. The overall death rate grew steadily from 1991 until peaking in 1994, then gradually abating. This reflects the well-publicized increase in male (and, less markedly, female) mortality during the first half of the 1990s. The male death rate jumped from 11.6 per thousand in 1990 to 17.8 per thousand in 1994, then declined somewhat to 15.0 per thousand in 1997. The mortalit...