Europe’s leaders are committed to ‘stemming the tide of migration’. They say they are protecting ‘the vulnerable’, yet history shows that the policies proposed will only increase migrant vulnerability.
Migrant workers at Egyptian-Libyan border. EC DG ECHO/Flickr. (CC 2.0 by-nd)
The author is a relief worker for a major humanitarian organisation and a migration expert. He has over ten years of experience working with displaced people in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and has recently conducted research on mobility in countries in crisis at the University of Oxford.
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