Back in the 1970s, the critic and writer John Berger depicted Turkish migration to Germany in A Seventh Man, which charted migrant workers’ journeys in Europe through their departure, work and return. Wed 1 Jan 2020 07.00 EST We might even be able to feel, if this isn't too old-fashioned a notion, a sense of empathy for those who have been savaged by war and struggling to reach those they love.

People whose lives have been destroyed by war often only have one or two others in the world who they can still find. People seem confused about why refugees often come from France. "Shocking invasion on the Kent Coast," he said five days ago. Jade Sacker & Analysis, Opinion Asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesvos are seen in the Moria refugee camp on Feb. 15, 2020. Plenty of efforts have also been made – see the Home Office’s “hostile environment” – to make life unbearable for asylum seekers and migrants in Britain. Libya had always been the migratory destination for many sub-Saharan Africans because of its employment opportunities. The first thing to understand about the refugee crisis is that it does not exist. As I have predicted, a record number of illegal immigrants have been taken into Dover.

But when they landed in Europe, they didn’t come to safety. Many escaped forced labour and torture, climbed into dinghies and began the dangerous sea journey across the central Mediterranean. Instead, they are forced to live invisible lives, illegalised, entrapped and segregated. This country is not facing an unsustainable wave of people in boats. On May 8th he wrote on Facebook: "On a day of national celebration we are being humiliated on the South Coast. Terrible echoes of the past four years. This rupture brought about by the arrival of the “other” creates anxiety and fear in the European mind, as the sociologist Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez has pointed out – thus the need to create neverending irrational, ideological justifications for that anxiety and fear. But in the 2010s, this cycle has been disrupted – many migrants’ and asylum seekers’ irregular status prevent them from visiting home. The concept of a “crisis” caused by the movement of people into the European continent has always been embedded in the Eurocentric way of seeing things. It taps into a view of dark-skinned men - it is always the men they focus on, not the women or children - as potential violent aggressors. "I know that when the British people say they want to take back control of our borders – this is exactly what they mean," she tweeted. They live in desperate limbo, pushed into the world of exploitation and forced labour. For Europe, the “other” challenges its “way of being” as its presence is a reflection of Europe’s past imperialism, upon which much of the continent’s wealth was built. Formers, ‘Eyewatering’ losses hit Scottish rural economy following self-catering accommodation restrictions, Little Book of Humanism offers universal lessons on finding meaning, purpose, and joy, BASC holds subs down to help during Coronavirus crisis, Johnson already looks bored of the coronavirus, A plague of hot takes: Lazy contrarians are putting everyone at risk, Protecting the doctors: The reality of the equipment supply problem, Coronavirus bill: The biggest expansion in executive power we've seen in our lifetime, This is what no-deal Brexit actually looks like, Herd immunity could cost hundreds of thousands of lives, Starmer takes on the science mantle with call for 'circuit-breaker' lockdown, 'He dragged Labour back to its roots' - BFAWU pays tribute to Jeremy Corbyn, Rebecca Long-Bailey should be the next Labour leader, The covid housing crisis provides an ideal opportunity for reform, Week in Review: Biden vs Trump requires the political analysis of Star Wars, Using Excel to process covid infections shows a total collapse in competence, Advertising at political party conferences, Constituency and local authority campaign maps. He spent most of spring and summer undertaking a one-man campaign to portray desperate refugees as an invasion force. Over the last decade, migration has become an urgent political issue. The first thing to understand about the refugee crisis is that it does not exist. There is no refugee crisis. This is the beginning of an invasion.". Instead, this is where they point the camera.

Instead, they found themselves in the centre of a white, Eurocentric discourse – a “problem” to be blamed for society’s ills. All along the coast there are many more. We can pretend otherwise. Breathless journalists set out on boats to film the refugees, adding to that sense of an emergency, of something-must-be-done, gullibly doing the job of nationalist politicians for them. We all would. That camera frame is also a narrative frame. O ver the last decade, ... Europe has imagined itself to be the victim of a migrant or refugee “crisis”.

That is not true. Soon afterwards, they are inevitably dubbed its enemies. This modest stream of people has been turned, with predictable cynicism, into a political emergency. Ian Dunt is editor of Politics.co.uk. The EU implemented the hotspot system, filtering people and categorising them as asylum seekers or “economic migrants”. This can be seen in the way migration into Europe has been portrayed as an “invasion” of different cultures and a “clash of civilisations” – in a way that is similar to the justifications of the colonial era where the colonised were cast as racially inferior beings. It is not dealing with numbers which are impossible to manage. The dynamic of the refugee response mimics Brexit almost precisely - reactionary outliers absorbed into government policy. The “return” represented the future, where a worker could travel freely and see lives improved for his family when he visited home. They do not cover those who lose all job prospects because of a minor drug conviction. Since Italy’s then-interior minister Marco Minniti’s agreement with Libya in 2017, Italy has supplied technical support to the Libyan coastguard, fending Africans away from European waters. We must offer a different way of seeing migration; a real alternative that addresses colonialism and the massively unequal world that it has created.

Following the suppression of the 2011 Arab spring and Nato’s intervention in Libya, a lawless society emerged, with racial hatred against sub-Saharan Africans unleashed. They do not cover the collapsing court system.

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