Non-western immigrants of Scandinavia have a higher incidence of coronavirus disease than their ratio in the local population. This phenomenon can be partly explained by their culture, which is characterized by distrust towards authorities and rigid compliance to community norms and religious rules…
The coronavirus epidemic has worsened the situation in Afghanistan, the unemployment was very high even before the outbreak due to the long-running civil war. There are no transit zones on the border of Afghanistan, therefore no medical examinations had been…
Emese Kovács, our researcher evaluated the Swedish open society approach to coronavirus epidemic on Kossuth Radio in the programme Good morning Hungary! She said, while the theory of herd immunity is an epidemiological question, from a sociological point of view,…
According to the latest data thousands of people arrived to Bosnia in two weeks, the authorities strengthened border protection - in vain. Bianka Speidl, researcher of the Migration Research Institute said on TV that the EU-Turkey migration pack seems to…
A Greek Chatolic priest, Naim Gharbi is organizing a summer camp in a safe zone of Syria, for about one thousand children and people with disabilities. Bianka Speidl, senior researcher of the Migration Research Institute with the assistance of the Hungarian…