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Delineating migrants: a social construction

Zack Longboy As I sit in Besir Ceka’s favourite internet café, tucked between the usual Viennese collection of pastel-coloured apartments and seemingly incongruous Baroque, Gothic and post-Modern architecture,…

Persecution of Minorities in Vienna

Josh Mitchell When we visited the Jewish Museum, and we heard the tour guide describe how the first Jews were invited to the city by the rulers, only…

Accountability in Austria

EJ Canny For the entirety of this trip, I’ve been viewing many things from Vienna in contrast to their German counterparts in Berlin. Some of the differences have…

Food for Thought at Refugees Welcome Stammtisch

Emma Cardwell Längenfeldgasse U-Bahn station on the U4 lies on the Eastern part of the city. When we stepped out of the station to head toward Cafe Prosa…

The Hoax of Austrian Identity, American Passport Privilege and the Migration Narrative

AJ Naddaff, Arab Studies and Political Science This trip reaffirms the baggage of privilege that comes with being an American in a global context. For one, when I…

At Pickwick’s

Working hard or hardly working. Can’t tell for sure.

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