We are living in a transformational time when it comes to asylum. Transformational because last year we adopted the second generation of EU laws on asylum. Transformational because we now have an Agency – the European Asylum Support Office – that is in a position to assist Member States facing difficult asylum situations by providing […]

Horizontal philanthropy is a process in which people who are poor mobilize and share resources among themselves. Its transactions provide types of mutual support, but can also act as investment to improve conditions and future prospects. Local idioms in various parts of Africa illustrate the way this type of transaction is understood: «one hand washes […]

La région parisienne compte une population immigrée d’origine africaine nombreuse, mais aussi variée. Pendant des dizaines d’années, les femmes africaines arrivaient après leur conjoint, dans le cadre du regroupement familial.1 L’homme était le pilier économique du foyer. A ce flux de population de la zone sahélienne islamisée s’ajoute, surtout depuis les années 1990, une vague […]

This biographical study of Darius Dhlomo1 begins to uncover the sporting past of a transnational and iconoclastic South African footballer and deepens our understanding of broader processes of change in South African football between the 1940s and the1960s. In striking, even surprising ways Dhlomo’s career brings to life key aspects of South African football’s transformation […]