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Europe's Refugee Crisis in Context
- 1. Europe’s Refugee Crisis in Context Sylvia Arthur sylviaarthur.wordpress.com
- 5. The Power of Images
- 13. 62% Percentage of those who have reached Europe who qualify for refugee status, according to the UN
- 14. 0.027% The percentage of migrants to have reached Europe this year as a proportion of the Europe’s total population of 740 million (200,000)
- 15. 1.2 million The number of Syrian refugees housed in Lebanon, a country with a total population of 4.5 million, 100 x smaller than the EU with 50 x as many refugees as the EU
- 16. 22,400 The number of migrants who’ve died trying to reach Europe between 1996 and 2014, according to the International Organisation for Migration
- 18. The largest wave of migrants since World War II
- 19. Public Opinion & Political Rhetoric
- 24. The hypocrisy of the press
- 26. The Daily Mail
- 28. The Role of [Recent] History
- 29. Chronology Timeline of the Mediterranean as the 21st century new Atlantic The fall of the Wall, 1989 EU enlargement, 2004 The Great Recession, 2008 Mass internal migration, 2009-2011 Arab Spring, 2011 Nato bombing of Libya, 2011 Syria, 2011 Immigration / Crisis point, 2015
- 33. All Europeans are equal but some Europeans are more equal than others...
- 35. “...It’s hard for us to regard Europe as a whole as something that belongs to us, as our homeland, our inheritance. We are strangers in it; we come from outside, from lands about which Europe itself has only the vaguest notion and which it treats more like a threat than a part of itself.” - Andrzej Stasiuk, Fado
- 37. Europe’s existential crisis CultureReligionRace EU Power
- 38. Interventionism vs non-interventionism? Libya, 2011 Syria, 2011
- 39. Internal migration vs external migration UK, 2015 Hungary, 2015
- 40. “In the latest history, the history that is happening right now, our Third World Others are gaining ever greater and ever more meaningful subjectivity. That is the first thing, and secondly, there is an invasion happening…of representatives of the Third World into developed countries. …How prepared are we, the citizens of Europe, for this change? Not very, I’m afraid to say. We treat the Other above all as a stranger (yet the Other does not have to mean a stranger), as the representative of a separate species, but the most crucial point is that we treat him as a threat.” - Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Other
- 41. Art and Activism
- 42. Amnesty International Volunteers lie in 200 body bags on Brighton beach to highlight the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean (Getty) April 2015
- 43. The House of 28 Doors by the Berlin- Dresden artist group BEWEGUN G NURR ( Florian Göpfert/ Alekos Hofstetter / Christian Steuer)
- 45. Activist Burials The Center for Political Beauty (Berlin) organised a series of symbolic burials of migrants at the German chancellery in June 2015. Changing the world with art.
- 47. Muhammed Lamin Jadama The work of photographer and activists Muhammed Lamin Jadama is tracing the quiet and dramatic moments of the refugees' daily lives. This image shows a man entering an Italian refugee camp, so far from everything that It's almost impossible to get in contact with society.
- 49. The Migrant’s Compass The work of South African editorial cartoonist, Brandan Reynolds
Editor's Notes
- Massimo Sestini took this photograph from an Italian navy helicopter in 2014, but it was in fact a repeat of a shot he had taken in identical circumstances the year before. The new photograph, taken between Libya and Italy, showed that nothing had changed - but was also more striking because of the behaviour of the passengers. "I thought if I could get the right angle straightaway, directly above 500 people who have spent five days and nights on a boat, they would probably all look up, ask for help, wave - so this year I thought I'd try again and it worked." The shot won a World Press Photo award earlier this year (2015). The United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, estimates that 366,402 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe this year, with 2,800 dead or missing. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/06/europe/europe-migrant-crisis/
- Source: StatistaCharts, 2014
- Source: Migrant crisis explained in numbers, FT (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7f7e0d28-5225-11e5-8642-453585f2cfcd.html#axzz3lDB32Y8S)
- IB Times - May 5, 2006: A would-be immigrant crawls onto the beach after washing up in a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach on Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lightbox/mediterranean-migrant-crisis-drowned-saved-photo-report-160210618.html
- Two tiny Spanish enclaves on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, Ceuta and Melilla, exercise a magnetic attraction for people trying to reach Europe. Here the continent is just a razorwire fence away. Jose Palazon, who works for migrant rights group Pro.De.In Melilla, took this picture of one golfer in mid-swing, while another gazes at a group of men (and one policeman) perched on the fence. "It seemed like a good moment to take a photo that was a bit more symbolic," he told the El Pais newspaper.
- This photograph shows a Syrian man, Laith Majid, holding his son and daughter in his arms, after a journey from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos in an inflatable boat that been steadily losing air. "An entire country's pain captured in one father's face," tweeted @MaryFitzger, after it was published in the New York Times. "I am overwhelmed by the reaction to this family's tears of relief. This is why I do what I do," wrote German photographer Daniel Etter.
- When Macedonia closed its border to migrants last month, after declaring a state of emergency, thousands spent a night in no-man's-land. The following morning they tried to push through police lines, leading officers to fire stun grenades into the crowd. AP photographer Darko Vojinovic captured this young father's despair. In the previous three weeks 39,000 migrants had been registered as they passed through the country en route for Serbia, and then Hungary - a member of the European Union.
- Refugees from Pakistan arriving on the Greek holiday island of Lesbos in July 2015. Source: Picture alliance-Scanpix Denma
- From countries torn apart by war, dictatorial oppression and religious extremism. The number of “migrants” to Europe from Syria (38%) and Afghanistan (12%). Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/10-truths-about-europes-refugee-crisis
- Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/10-truths-about-europes-refugee-crisis
- Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/10-truths-about-europes-refugee-crisis
- The next deadliest? The U.S.-Mexico border with 6,029 deaths between 1998 and 2013, the group said, citing U.S. Border Patrol statistics. Source: CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/world/things-to-know-europe-migrant-crisis-worlds-deadliest-border/index.html)
- Switzerland’s SVP party
- Switzerland’s SVP party
- Switzerland’s SVP party
- August 2015.
- July 2015 / September 2015
- Globalisation / Fortress Europe / Nato bombing of Libya, March-November 2011 / Syria, March 2011
- The fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 (26 years ago). Ironically, it was Hungary that facilitated the fall of the Wall by allowing refugees from east Germany to travel onto Austria unhindered in the hopes of reaching west Germany, where they would have freedom.
- Syrian refugees cross into Hungary underneath the border fence on the Hungarian - Serbian border near Roszke, Hungary on Wednesday. Associated Press, Aug. 26, 2015 | 3:02 p.m. EDT: http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/26/hungary-border-fence-proving-futile-in-slowing-migrant-flow. The new Berlin Wall courtesy of Hungary’s right-wing Fidesz party. Like the US, walls and borders are in vogue with politicians.
- EU enlargement to include former Eastern bloc. Biggest enlargement in EU history with 10 countries joining at the same time.
- © Sylvia Arthur.
- First published 2006.
- Source: Greece’s reparations demand could bring the euro crisis to a head, FT blogs, 9 April, 2015 (http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2015/04/greeces-reparations-demand-could-bring-the-euro-crisis-to-a-head/)
- Who are we? What do we stand for? What is our place in the world? “Now I realise that Europe isn’t a thing at all... that it has no unified culture or shared interests except for the optimistic architects of the European Union, and that nothing at all will ever join Swedish technocrats to Muslims farmers in former Yugoslavia.” - Edmund White, My First European
- Nato bombing of Libya in 2011 (Source: Latuff 2011) / Non-intervention in Syrian Civil War 2011-present (Source: A man scours rubble in Aleppo. Photo: Pablo Tosco / AFP / Getty Images)
- Polish migrant strike UK, August 2015 / Asylum seekers protest outside the train station in Budapest, August 2015
- First published 2006.
- Amnesty International volunteers lie in 200 body bags on Brighton beach to highlight the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean (Getty) April 2015
- THE HOUSE OF THE 28 DOORS multi-functional architecture is designed to be a stage and a room for communication: The sculpture consists of 28 lined-up doors that symbolize the 28 current countries of the European Union, encompassing a large room. Whereas the sculpture seen from the outside seems to be hermetically sealed, the transparent roof construction opens up the architecture towards the sky. Within the rotunda’s architecture the distinction between inside and outside, between within the European Union and beyond its borders, between successful and unsuccessful escape manifests. Inside, three personal stories of refugees currently living in Berlin are shown on three monitors. The video installment links the individual memory of the refugees with the question of what role the continuing refugee crisis has in collective European memory. The doors must be opened!
- Burnt down in an arson attack in March 2015.
- The Center for Political Beauty is a think tank which links interventional art, politics, and human rights and attempts to gain the attention of digital media in order to protect human lives. Source: https://www.facebook.com/politicalbeauty
- Blood spills out of a cooler that holds migrant bodies (Image courtesy of Center for Political Beauty)
- © Muhammed Lamin Jadama, Migration photographer, Berlin. From Contemporary & instagram page.
- © Muhammed Lamin Jadama, Berlin-based migration photographer.
- Source: Brandan Reynolds, Business Day, South Africa, 2015 @brandanrey
- The convoy taking migrants from Hungary to Austria is a private initiative. A convoy of about 140 cars left Vienna for the Hungarian capital, Budapest, as part of a private initiative dubbed "refugeeconvoy". BBC News: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34166882