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‘THEY TAKE OUR HEALTHCARE’: HEALTH AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE
Excited to see our new paper out in Comparative Political Studies. In this study, we extend the research on anti-immigrant attitudes by analyzing an overlooked factor: health. We develop a framework explaining why residents perceive competition for health services with immigrants. Using data from eleven rounds of the European Social Survey, covering 222,989 respondents in 30 European countries (2002–2023), we find a consistent association between poor health and anti-immigrat
Mar 31 min read
COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION: THEORY AND MIXED-METHOD EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECT OF PRIVATIZATION ON CHILDBEARING
Thrilled to see our new paper out now in European Journal of Sociology Abstract Social reproduction scholars have made headway in integrating the analysis of capitalism, class, gender, and care. We offer two contributions to this literature. First, we provide a novel framework with insights into companies as sites of decommodification, shaping childcare cost distribution and affecting childbearing rates. Second, we extend social reproduction research geographically to the oft
Feb 91 min read
CIRS NEWSWATCH: EXPERT INSIGHTS: EUROPE’S EMBARRASSING RECKONING
Two months into the war on Iran, the skeptics have been vindicated, and Europe’s center is slowly rediscovering the international law it abandoned in February. Liberal globalism has collapsed; violent, lawless illiberalism epitomized by Trumpism fills the void. The European center, with Merz as its figurehead, was meant to be the counterweight. Instead, when the US and Israel struck Iran on February 28, German chancellor Merz refused to “lecture” allies, declared internationa
May 92 min read
SOCIAL EUROPE: SPAIN AND NORWAY EXPOSE THE BANKRUPTCY OF EUROPE’S IRAN RESPONSE
Europe's response to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran exposes a continent locked in dependency and struggling to find its voice. Liberal globalism has collapsed, and the vacuum is being filled by an increasingly violent, lawless illiberalism that trades principle for hierarchy and force. The centre right — and its European figurehead, Friedrich Merz — is often framed as the main counterweight to illiberal disruption. Yet when the United States and Israel launched strikes on I
Mar 101 min read
GÁBOR SCHEIRING
Tracing the path of the polycrisis of liberal globalism, while mapping the responses
that foster economic and political revival.
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