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As HONY wraps up its coverage of the migrant crisis, we take stock of what Stanton has achieved.
Sunjeev Sahota.
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Sahota’s Booker shortlisted novel is acutely intelligent and very of the moment. It may well take the prize.
In Athenian spirit.
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Berlin recently agreed to curb the number of migrants it welcomed after a backlash against Angela Merkel’s suspension of EU rules limiting numbers. It followed previous scenes of crowds welcoming new arrivals…
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Migrants and refugees are placed under constant scrutiny once they arrive in the EU. But what happens to those who don’t survive the journey is a different story.
Refugees collect water as they wait to be registered at a centre in Presevo, Serbia.
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Too long stigmatised as Europe’s outsiders, the people of Serbia are seizing an opportunity to change their country’s image.
Dover is taking more than its fair share.
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How FOI requests revealed the massive burden on two local authorities, and how to end the damaging effects on children.
Turner’s ‘The Slave Ship’, 1840.
In the same week that Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon of Aylan al-Kurdi made the headlines, I’m reminded of another controversial image. In 1840, J M W Turner exhibited what would become one of his most famous…
Refugees are escorted to especially chartered trains after they arrived at the main train station in Munich.
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How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
A refugee prays in a makeshift camp.
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The discourse about who is and isn’t welcome is taking on a disturbing new tone.
A new start: Syrian refugee Raghad al Sous now lives in Huddersfield.
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There is ongoing disagreement among OECD countries as to whether foreign aid spent in-house counts.
A refugee appeals for help in Hungary.
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We need more Europe in our asylum policy. We need more Union in our refugee policy,“ says the Commission president.
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The UK will take in 20,000 refugees but how many is enough and should we be counting?
Hackles raised at an anti-migrant protest in Brno, Czech Republic.
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The Czech police were condemned for writing numbers on refugees’ arms – but Central Europe’s problem with outsiders goes much deeper.
Germany is doing most of the heavy lifting.
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Europe has long struggled to share the burden fairly and now the situation is at breaking point.
Outside the Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary.
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It’s not just calling refugees “migrants” that dehumanises them – it’s talking about them as if they’re numbers.
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The free movement of people among Schengen member states is a boon for business and the European economy.
Saying it at last.
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In just a few weeks, the people of Europe have been galvanised into supporting the refugees dying to reach their shores.
Newspapers report the death of Aylan Kurdi.
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A devastating picture of a drowned boy has touched viewers and political leaders alike – and could be a turning point in Europe’s spiralling refugee crisis.
The scene at Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary.
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Budapest’s main train station has been reopened to refugees – but Hungary’s hateful politics of fear are only getting harsher.
Migrants from the Middle East wait outside a train station in Budapest on their way across Europe.
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A green card lottery would give so-called economic migrants a legal route to Europe.