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In the latest episode of the FAU CHREN Podcast Human Rights Tracks, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel discusses key policy plans of the new German government in terms of migration and integration, potential pitfalls and their implications. The episode (in German) is available at: Listen Notes  Podbea...

In the recent article "Why a Migration Policy of Hardship Will Fail", published on April 11, 2025, by SPIEGEL, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel and further renowned scholars analyze current political debates in the context of the coalition agreement. They issue a strong warning against a “fact-resistant panic...

As part of the ZDF election shows on February 13th and 20th, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel and the MFI team will conduct fact-checking on topics related to migration, displacement, and integration. This process takes place in close collaboration with the ZDF editorial team, which either commissions specifi...

On January 23rd, 2025 Prof. Petra Bendel addressed the role of the media and its influence on political and societal attitudes towards migration during the 19th SWR Media Forum on Migration with this years motto entitled “We, Here. Debates of a Migration Society.” She called for a more factual and g...

On January 29, 2025, the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) invites you to the event "Ten Years Later: What Have We Learned from 2015? Migration and Integration in the Federal Election Year" at 7 p.m. at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer House in Berlin. Together with Prof. Petra Bendel, Marie von Ma...

In collaboration with federal states, municipalities, and representatives of refugees, a team from FAU and the University of Hildesheim, together with four federal states, has developed a mechanism to distribute asylum seekers from federal states to municipalities. Using an algorithm, the individual...

On November 27, December 4, and December 11, the online lecture series "Care Beyond Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Enhancing Retention in the Care and Nursing Sector" will continue. Securing and retaining skilled workers in nursing and elderly care has emerged as critical challenge on a g...

In her keynote at the EKD Synod on November 12th, 2024, in Würzburg, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel highlighted - with reference to international law, EU law, and the German Constitution - the need for safeguarding the individual right to asylum, both at the EU level and within Germany. She issued a warning...

The joint project "Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer" (FFVT), which is implemented by, among other institutions, at the FAU Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN), presented its "Global Flight Report 2024" – published by S. Fischer Verla...

Time and again, periods of increased displacement present municipalities with the challenge of providing capacities for accommodating people arriving as quickly as possible. However, capacities are regularly reduced in times of decreasing migration. Upon increases of arriving refugees makeshift solu...