NPR’s Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, “Greek Tragedy,” about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Almost 10 years ago, a horrific boat accident was in world news, briefly. An old wooden boat built to hold just a few…
The paper explores the production of a digital archive of migration memories, solidarity, border violence and resistance between the Horn of Africa, the Mediterranean space and Europe. Under an ongoing multidisciplinary project started in 2022, scholars from Europe and North Africa are applying ethnographic methodology and participatory approaches to co-construct with migrants an archival representation…
The boat journey is central to the narrative of Mediterranean migration of the undocumented. While the boat itself is flimsy, fragile, unstable, it has powerfully captured the attention of the world—after all, its journey has produced recurring images of migrants washing up along southern Europe’s picturesque beaches in the archive of undocumented migration. As the…
Since the summer of 2015, the Greek island of Lesvos has been centre stage of the so-called refugee crisis and one of the sites where new EU policies for migration control have been tested and implemented. This combined study of jurisprudence with ethnographic fieldwork aims to understand the impact of the asylum regime on the…
As we move into this new year, into 2025, we look at how the world is cracking down on migrants and asylum seekers, and the dangers they face as they flee their countries due to many conditions, from persecution to economic conditions to the climate crisis. In Greece, prosecutors have opened a murder investigation of,…
Greece is currently facing a “children’s emergency” due to the rising number of unaccompanied minors arriving in the country, particularly along a new trafficking route from Libya to Crete. This alarming situation has led non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to urge Greek authorities to take immediate action to ensure the safety and protection of these children. The…
Latest shipwrecks off Samos claim at least 12 lives. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by the recent tragic loss of life in the Aegean Sea. Most recently, at least 12 people, all women and children, have perished in two separate incidents off Samos island this week. On 25 November, 39 people were…
How do children arrive in Greece and why are they hosted in Hotspots or Reception and Identification Centers (RIC) as they are more commonly known? Is it the place of their first choice and do they willingly stay there? >>> Iliopoulou, A. Theorien und Praktiken der Selbstbestimmung und Partizipation: Janusz Korczak im Diskurs: Theories and…
Tourism industry, one of the most dynamic industries worldwide is also one of the most vulnerable to crisis and disaster. This is mainly due to the fact that tourism is closely related and influenced by many external factors such as exchange rates, the political and economic environment, climate, and weather conditions. Tourism success is directly…
When Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team member Ismail had to leave his home country, Eritrea, he faced a dangerous journey to reach safety, crossing multiple countries and the Mediterranean Sea. In the months that followed, he faced detention, sickness, violence, and kidnapping, and saw many people who did not make it. Now he…