"[T]he nationalist right knows what it wants and is dragging mainstream opinion behind it. Today’s inhumane #migration policies are a warm-up act. ‘Stop the Small Boats’ is a slogan with which many nominally progressive politicians are at pains to agree. But behind the slogan is a wider agenda – to soften public attitudes for a crime against humanity."
Ever Harder Borders
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/june/ever-harder-borders
#Adriana #refugees #migrants #AsylumSeekers #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia
Michael Chessum | Ever Harder Borders · LRB 23 June 2023
The Adriana, a fishing boat, left the port of Tobruk in Libya early on 10 June in an attempt to reach Italy. It was...
"The two vessels were lost at sea four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the #Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the #media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the #Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten."
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/23/greece_migrant_shipwreck_media_coverage
#TitanicSub #refugees #AsylumSeekers #migrants #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia #racism #classism
As Media Spotlights Titanic Sub, Hundreds of Migrants Who Died in Greek Shipwreck Get Scant Coverage
As many as 700 migrants are feared to have died after an overloaded fishing vessel capsized last week off the coast of Greece. As search and rescue efforts continue with dwindling expectations, the Greek Coast Guard is facing backlash over its failure to help rescue passengers before the boat sank. Most of the migrants were women and children; many were from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria and Palestine. They are presumed victims of what may be one the deadliest migrant shipwrecks ever recorded, yet the story has received far less public attention than the search for five passengers aboard a submersible to view the wreck of the Titanic. All five of those passengers were confirmed by the U.S. Coast Guard to have likely died Sunday, days before wall-to-wall media coverage began to speculate about their plight.
We discuss this disparity and the European refugee crisis at large with two guests: Giorgos Kosmopoulos, a senior migration campaigner for Amnesty International, and Laurence Bondard, spokesperson and operations communications manager for SOS Méditerranée, a nongovernmental rescue organization that operates in the central Mediterranean. Bondard has sailed on seven rescue missions with the NGO, part of a growing necessity in the region, where European countries have withheld the resources available for sea rescue. In the last decade, more than 30,000 refugees are estimated to have drowned in the Mediterranean.
"This week on #TheNewArabVoice, we're looking at the trial of the #volunteers who helped #migrants on the Greek island of #Lesvos. [..]
"[Seán Binder] sat down with The New Arab Voice this week to talk about his work on Lesvos, his arrest and detention, the build-up and his eventual trial, and how the targeting of volunteers, like him, will affect vital #SearchAndRescue work at sea."
#refugees #RefugeeSolidarity #MigrantSolidarity #humanitarianism #MigrantsAtSea
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/human-rights-trial
Human Rights on Trial
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