Pressure from Spanish society has forced the Rajoy government to accept almost 15,000 refugees - the third biggest recipient in Europe.
The current story of mass migration to Europe awakens the memories of other great migrations in the past.
Fear pushes us to know the social and political determinations of refugees from a right-wing perspective ('are they potential ISIS militants?'). But compassion works by blinding us to it.
These justifications seem to be logically weak: the problem, however, is that they capture the imagination of large masses of people in Europe.
Marriage migrants in the UK are highly vulnerable to domestic violence because state immigration and welfare policies leave them with few rights. This exacerbates the gendered power imbalances within marriages.
After seeing images of children's bodies washed up on European shores, I made a decision to go to one of the main receiving islands: Kos.
European powers including Germany, France and the United Kingdom, most affected by the descent of the Middle East into chaos, have nevertheless followed the US lead in every action.
The undersigned researchers, faculty, staff and alumni of the European University Institute wish to express our outrage at the deaths of thousands of people on their journey to Europe.
Dealing with the refugee crisis has become part of the Greek political parties’ agenda due to the forthcoming elections on September 20.
This is not only a European crisis but a global one, and it should be approached as such, involving nations throughout the world in its solution. As it did in the past, Latin America can give a hand. Português. Español.
Instead of focusing on this humanitarian crisis, governments in Europe, the United States and Canada are only concerned with the number of migrants they can take in.
Secrecy may have a grubbier motive, forcing state agencies to keep information from the public to prevent a backlash against their usage.
