Rethinking EU migration and asylum policies: Managing immigration jointly with countries of origin and transit. Stiftung MEDAM Assessment Report on Asylum and Migration Policies in Europe 2019 Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration (MEDAM)

The arrival of more than one million asylum seekers in Europe in 2015 exposed serious flaws in the EU’s asylum system. While the inflow of irregular migrants has long subsided, the political landscape and public debate in Europe have been fundamentally and permanently altered. Multiple efforts over the years to reform the European asylum system and to make it resilient to possible future surges in refugee movements have reached an impasse. Since early 2016, the EU has implemented far-reaching agreements with neighboring countries to curb irregular immigration, including the EU-Turkey understanding, the closure of the Western Balkans migration route, and support for search and rescue operations by the Libyan coast guard and the return to Libya of individuals rescued at sea. However, the EU and its member states have not used the respite offered by fewer irregular migrants arriving in Europe to address important shortcomings: key provisions of the EU-Turkey agreement are not functional, especially for the return of migrants from the Greek islands to Turkey; asylum systems in Western Balkan countries are underdeveloped and would be overwhelmed quickly if migrant flows were to resurge; and the human rights of migrants in Libya are routinely violated

Queer History und historisches Lernen: Konzeptionen und Umsetzungen am Beispiel von queerhistory.de und des Archivs der anderen Erinnerungen

Die Geschichte sexueller Vielfalt ist bisher kaum ein Thema des Geschichtsunterrichts. Unter Aufgreifen von Ansätzen aus der Queer Theory und den Queer Studies zeigt der Beitrag anhand des Projektes des Berliner Queer History Months und des Archivs der anderen Erinnerungen der Bundestiftung Magnus Hirschfeld konkrete Lernsettings auf, mit denen diese Geschichte auch in den Geschichtsunterricht integriert werden kann.The history of sexual diversity rarely is a topic in history classes at school. By using approaches taken from queer theory and queer history, the article gives insight into the project of the Berlin Queer History Month and into the Archiv der anderen Erinnerungen from the Magnus-Hirschfeld Foundation, in order to give concrete advice how to integrate the history of sexual diversity into class

Successful resection of the recurrence of a cavernous malformation of the optic chiasm

The case of a 33-year-old female who suffered from a recurrence of an intrachiasmatic cavernous malformation is presented. She had already undergone surgery in 1991 and 2001 and was admitted to our hospital with reduced vision in the right eye. After MRI, and diagnosis of recurrence of the cavernoma, a neurosurgical operation was performed using the pterional approach. The intraoperative situation was documented with micro photographs. The postoperative course was uneventful. The female described a minimal improvement of her vision. No postoperative complications were observed. To our knowledge, microsurgically complete extirpation of a recurrence of an intrachiasmatic cavernoma has not yet been reported in the literature