Syrian family displaced to Qaa in Lebanon. Credit: Freedom House via FlickrIt is the discursive construction of the situation as 'crisis' that bestows justification to such cruel quick fixes as the EU-Turkey accord that was adopted on Friday.
We should refuse to call it a 'crisis'. The situation is grave, but hardly a crisis. There is an increased inflow of asylum seekers and a number of European countries are refusing to process asylum claims, although the EU has capacity, know-how, and funds (how about that 6 billion given to Turkey to manage its asylum facilities?) to accommodate everyone.
This is not a masterful policy response to a crisis, as the EU institutions’ narrative goes, but a de facto submission to the will of some countries to block immigration.
