Cologne and the Art of Not Being a Racist
Monday Morning Meetings on Migration
English - February 29, 2016 00:00 - 18 minutes - 34.6 MBNews migration immigration politics refugees borders asylum Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On New Years Eve 2016 German police received hundreds of complaints of crimes including sexual assaults and robberies occurring in the vicinity of the Cologne Central Railway station. Many blamed recently arrived asylum seekers for the attacks. In this week’s podcast Francois Bonnet of the CNRS, explains why we have struggled to balance our righteous indignation at the attacks with our fear of being labelled a ‘racist’.