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Tag Archives: Syrian refugees
Oct 27 2016
The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future Scenarios
Comments Off on The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future ScenariosBy Pınar Dinç and Irem Aydemir The Arab Spring started the fire in 2011, and ever since the whole MENA region has been in turmoil. The civil war in Syria has quickly become a global one with the ongoing war … Continue reading
Posted by: October 27, 2016
Tagged with: eu-turkey deal, migration, refugee crisis, Syrian refugees, Turkey
May 20 2016
The EU’s Operation Sophia Has Failed to Make Conditions Safer for Refugees
Comments Off on The EU’s Operation Sophia Has Failed to Make Conditions Safer for RefugeesBy Mollie Gerver In June 2015 the EU instituted a naval force, the EUNAVFOR MED, to destroy boats used by people smugglers. Two months later, in August 2015, a German vessel rescued a pregnant Somali woman named Rahma Abukar Ali, … Continue reading
Posted by: May 20, 2016
Tagged with: EUNAVFOR MED, Libya, Mediterranean, refugee crisis, refugee law, Syrian refugees
Feb 25 2016
The International Politics of the Refugee Crisis
Comments Off on The International Politics of the Refugee CrisisBy Vassilios Paipais Last Wednesday, Vienna hosted a meeting of Balkan countries involving Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia in divisive move that deliberately excluded the Greek government from decisions concerning the tackling of the mounting refugee … Continue reading
Posted by: February 25, 2016
Tagged with: immigration, NATO, refugee crisis, Russia, Syria, Syrian refugees
Sep 21 2015
Can the EU be hospitable?
5 CommentsBy Jasmine Gani The recent refugee crisis in Europe has been an embarrassing and damaging episode for the EU, which prides itself on its humanitarian credentials. The awful and tragic image of the little boy Alan Kurdi that went viral … Continue reading
Posted by: September 21, 2015
Tagged with: European identity, European Neighbourhood Policy, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, Schengen, Syrian refugees
Aug 28 2015
Fortress Europe: Cause or Consequence of Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis’?
3 CommentsBy Catherine Briddick Europe, it seems, is facing a ‘migration crisis’. This crisis is ‘testing’ for, amongst others, the British public, because, as our Prime Minister David Cameron explained in an interview with ITV News: you have got a swarm … Continue reading
Posted by: August 28, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, human rights, humanitarian visas, international law, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee law, refugees, Syrian refugees, trafficking
Aug 20 2015
Syria’s Refugees: When did the West Become so Heartless?
1 CommentBy Christopher Phillips Recently I went to see Miss Saigon at the West End, a tragic musical set in the years after the Vietnam War. In one scene, the lead characters flee on a crowded boat full of migrants from … Continue reading
Posted by: August 20, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, Syrian refugees, UNHCR, Vietnames boat people