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Tag Archives: humanitarianism
Mar 28 2016
The political ‘migration crisis’ and the military-humanitarian response
1 CommentBy Pierluigi Musarò ‘We need more than a humanitarian response […] We need political leadership and action,’ Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said on 8 March 2016. Referring to the fact that ‘Europe is now seeing … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2016
Tagged with: border control, humanitarian emergency, humanitarian space, humanitarianism, immigration, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee crisis, refugees
Jun 15 2015
The Politics of the Humanitarian Crisis in Europe
4 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi One of the greatest moral achievements of the ancient world has been the enshrinement of a solidarity principle for the fellow human in distress, which finds perhaps its highest formulation in the evangelical parable of the “good … Continue reading
Posted by: June 15, 2015
Tagged with: EU, humanitarianism, migrants
Apr 24 2015
On the Borderlands of Humanity
3 CommentsBy Henry Radice The current crisis in the Mediterranean reminds us of what should be an obvious truth, but is too frequently forgotten: the European Union (EU) is a humanitarian space or it is nothing. If there are any criteria according … Continue reading
Posted by: April 24, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, frontex, humanitarian space, humanitarianism, immigration, mare nostrum, migration, refugees