After graduating from Babes-Bolai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Raluca Abăseacă obtained a PhD degree in Political Science from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium with a thesis on social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. She is an Associate Researcher at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bucharest. She collaborated with NGOs in Belgium and was an editor, researcher and translator.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought social, economic and health consequences for migrant seasonal workers, increasing social inequalities and worsening their already precarious working conditions.
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Reports on child abductions spreading on social media lead to the attack of Roma communities in France in March 2019. Following these, the reports and rumours proved to be unfounded and the police and city authorities in Paris warned against sharing false information and inciting to violence.
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Qatar is hosting the next world cup in 2022. Major sports events are prone to labour and other human rights violations, reason for which it is essential to revisit the situation of the richest country in the world, which combines both an image of luxury and of extreme poverty.
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It became almost impossible to pretend that Hungary is still a democracy. The autocratic tendencies of Orban’s regime are difficult to counteract without strengthening the existent civic and political opposition that is being intimidated by the police state.
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