As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.
Overcrowded camps at Europe’s borders
Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it.
Europe’s moral compass, lost at sea
The Greek migrant shipwreck was another preventable tragedy at the borders of Europe.
‘You mean the prison?’: displaced people on Samos
The warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads.
Voices from the borders of Europe
It’s a lot easier to ignore the plight of the refugees at Europe’s borders if one doesn’t hear their stories.