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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDesperate people, hazardous escapes
Those fleeing violent conflict or brutal repressive regimes, facing darkness and terror as they journey from home to...
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at sea
The European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow many people have to die before we start talking responsibly about immigration?
Last week’s deaths in the Mediterranean were directly linked to xenophobic politics in Britain.
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Published in: openSecurityCrisis in the Mediterranean: Europe must change course
As leaders of European Union member states prepare to meet to discuss the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the Council...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shores
There are answers to the Mediterranean migrant-deaths crisis. They just require the European Union, whose foreign...
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Published in: 50.50Lampedusa: Never again
The terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope's war on migrants
The unending series of mass drownings in the Mediterranean of migrants and refugees are not unfortunate tragedies:...
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Published in: 50.50The new Sangatte: rights pushed out of sight
In the context of escalating police violence and local racism, the new day centre for migrants in Calais, France is...
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Published in: openSecurityMigrants in the Mediterranean: mourning deaths, not saving lives
For as long as the humanitarian impulse to rescue the desperate and the destitute is trumped by Europe’s focus on...
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Published in: openSecurityScapegoats for an insecure Europe
The crisis facing Europe could be perceived as a product of conflicting class interests in what Keynes called the...
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Published in: openSecurityEastern Ukraine: the humanity behind the headlines
The government in Kyiv, aid organisations and the international community must work together to address the...
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Published in: TransformationExile Nation: The Plastic People
The need for a despised underclass of darker-skinned cheap labor has underpinned American prosperity since slavery....
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Published in: openSecurityThe European Kurds rallying to fight IS
With Kurds in Iraq and Syria under attack from the Islamic State, many young Kurds in Europe have been joining...
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Published in: 50.50Immigration detention: a most un-British phenomenon
Strict prohibitions against arbitrary detention are a central element in any system that celebrates liberty. It is...
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Published in: openSecurityThe poverty of European migration policy
Policy on migration in Europe bears more relationship to ideology than evidence. And humanity is sorely lacking.
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Published in: openSecurityA year after Lampedusa: what has changed?
Twelve months ago, Europe’s conscience was pricked by the sight of the bodies of hundreds of migrants shipwrecked at...
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Published in: ourNHSFrom Iraq to Tilbury: migrants, health and borders
We bear powerless witness to mountain massacres, to bombs raining on life-saving hospitals. But does our compassion...
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Published in: ourNHSStop distracting us with the 'health tourism' sideshow
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's plans to charge non-EU migrants 150% of the cost of NHS treatment are a sideshow that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab migrants face a new Sykes-Picot in Calais
The latest raid on camps in Calais is an example of Europe continuing to strengthen border controls and crack down...
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Published in: openSecurityLibya: the migrant trap
The discovery by the Italian navy of 30 bodies in a fishing boat at the weekend highlights the deadly trail of...