Governments mark Migrant Week by denying the problem.
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The EU’s proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals from Greece and Italy to other EU Member States is not what it seems.
You’d think that the “conscience of Europe” would strive to protect migrants’ human rights.
Why have South-East Asian countries abandoned scores of migrants to drift in the sea?
The UK’s response to the migrant crisis is legal, but it’s also immoral.
How Europe’s resettlement plan breaks down in numbers.
Theresa May defends her decision to refuse help to people risking their lives to come to Europe with some faulty evidence.
The UK is refusing to take just 2,000 refugees to help tackle the crisis in the Mediterranean. And it puts the EU on a knife edge.
Libya’s endless security crisis and duelling “governments” are turning the Mediterranean into a sea of troubles.
The European Union is spearheading a campaign to enable military action against the boats carrying migrants seeking to leave Libya and arrive on EU shores – and on May 11, a draft resolution will be presented…
It’s absurd that Europe continues to blame migrants seeking a better life for their own fate.
The proposed response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis could well do more harm than good.
It remains to be seen whether the EU’s narrow approach can prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean.
This is not about people smuggling, it’s about a displacement crisis of unprecedented proportions.
Thanks to a lack of joined-up policy on refugees, the Mediterranean has become the world’s most dangerous migrant destination.
The current situation in which thousands are dying is untenable. Here are some ideas.
There appears to be little chance of a negotiated solution to the chaos tearing the country apart.
Europe still hasn’t figured out how to identify or help refugees.
The UK government seeks to defend the indefensible.
Top contributors
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Warwick
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Director of the Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees, University of Essex
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Social Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow in Migration, Identity and Belonging, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in Maritime Security, Coventry University
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Director of the Migration Policy Centre and Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
