Border agency Frontex recently reported that an unprecedented 710,000 migrants had entered the EU this year. Something didn’t ring true for Nando Sigona.
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By focusing on people traffickers, leaders are spinning a dangerous narrative about this crisis.
Migrants and refugees are placed under constant scrutiny once they arrive in the EU. But what happens to those who don’t survive the journey is a different story.
Imagine building a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar and draining the Mediterranean in order to generate vast amounts of hydroelectricity and create fertile new lands.
Europe always prefers to overlook its colonial past – but now it’s becoming unavoidable.
The sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami threat seriously.
Ancient hospitality rituals could teach us a thing or two about how to respect the people arriving on our shores.
Look at the numbers and the ‘invasion rhetoric’ is unwarranted.
Italian PM blasts fellow EU leaders for spat over who takes in the desperate people arriving in his country every day.
Governments mark Migrant Week by denying the problem.
How Europe’s resettlement plan breaks down in numbers.
Theresa May defends her decision to refuse help to people risking their lives to come to Europe with some faulty evidence.
The UK is refusing to take just 2,000 refugees to help tackle the crisis in the Mediterranean. And it puts the EU on a knife edge.
Australia may have ‘stopped the boats’ but the tragedy of people drowning at sea continues to our north and is getting worse. A regional solution to the refugee crisis is urgently needed.
Libya’s endless security crisis and duelling “governments” are turning the Mediterranean into a sea of troubles.
The European Union is spearheading a campaign to enable military action against the boats carrying migrants seeking to leave Libya and arrive on EU shores – and on May 11, a draft resolution will be presented…
The EU has pledged to triple money to the search-and-rescue mission in the Mediterranean. But simply throwing money at the problem won’t work.
It’s absurd that Europe continues to blame migrants seeking a better life for their own fate.
Political leaders have a ready culprit in people smugglers for drownings at sea. The problem is that this ignores responsibility for eliminating all other options for these people to avoid harm.
The proposed response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis could well do more harm than good.
Top contributors
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Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Director of the Migration Policy Centre and Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
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Assistant Professor in Maritime Security, Coventry University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Liverpool
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Earth scientist, Instituto de Geociencias de Barcelona (Geo3Bcn – CSIC)
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Professor of Politics, University of Birmingham
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Reader in Political Geography, Loughborough University
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Lecturer and Programme Leader, BA International Tourism and Events Management, Glasgow Caledonian University
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PhD Candidate in Conservation Biology, UCL
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Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast