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RSS FeedsThe Sunday Essay: how we all colluded in Fortress Europe | Kenan Malik
(The Guardian Greece)

 
 

10 june 2018 11:20:16

 
The Sunday Essay: how we all colluded in Fortress Europe | Kenan Malik
(The Guardian Greece)
 


In a keynote speech in Budapest last week, the Observer columnist argued that hostility to migrants is not a fringe project - mainstream politicians have long helped promote fear of `the otherŽIn October 2013, a ship carrying migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Some 300 people drowned. It was not the first time that migrants had drowned in the Mediterranean. In fact, at that time it was estimated that in the previous 25 years at least 20,000 people had died trying to reach the shores of Europe. The real figure was most likely much higher. But that sinking in October 2013 was the first time that such a tragedy had truly impressed itself upon the conscience of Europe.Migrants are seen less as human beings than as so much flotsam and jetsam to be swept away from EuropeŽs beaches Continue reading...


 
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