Tag: Mediterranean
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Ready-made Tribute to Victims Cannot Replace Deep-seated Exchange of Looks
Article written by Elsa Gomis. One might set the beginning of the so-called migrant ‘crisis’ in the Mediterranean to October 3, 2013 when a boat carrying more than 360 people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana sank off the coast of Lampedusa island. The crisis reached a peak in the summer of 2015 with massive arrivals…
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Whose Crisis is it Anyway?
by Gareth Mulvey ‘I’m a refugee and I don’t like being described as a crisis’. This was a voice from the floor at a conference jointly organised by Bemis, Gramnet and the Swansea European Institute of Identities. The conference was called ‘Diversity, Citizenship and Identity in the UK 2015 and beyond’. It was…
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‘War is Peace’ and other forms of doublethink: EU proposes military operation to stop refugees
by Cetta Mainwaring More than 1,800 people have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea this year, 800 of whom died in one incident when a boat capsized on April 19th. These deaths make 2015 the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees in the region. The avoidable loss of life…
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‘The Mediterranean “between the pleasures of wealth and the desires of the poor”’*
by Mariangela Palladino My title, ‘The Mediterranean “between the pleasures of wealth and the desires of the poor”’, borrows Alain Badiou’s definition of borders today: dividing “the rich capitalist North from the poor and devastated South. New walls are being constructed all over the world: between Palestinians and Israelis, between Mexico and the…
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The first European Migration Forum: report and early reflections
by Giuliana Tiripelli While the migrant boat tragedy in the Mediterranean unfolds and deepens, reaching unimaginable death tolls and quickly revolutionising and burdening southernmost European communities, positive forces within European institutions push to transform the migration emergency and its polices into a coherent and practical implementation of human rights across, and by, Europe.…
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‘Last Dream (On Earth)’: When Crossing that Sea – “Ensi wo yie!”
by Gameli Tordzro Change happens and affects us! Whether it happens for the better or for the worse depends on how we effect change: Change affects us but we effect change Last night, I dozed off in the sofa in our living room after a long day. The T.V. was on…
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