COMPAS Seminar Series, Thursdays, Hilary Term 2016
During the ‘Summer of Migration 2015’ over one million people, mostly refugees, arrived in the EU; around 3,700 died in search of protection. In Edirne (Turkey), Idomeni (Greece), Budapest (Hungary) and elsewhere, refugees demonstrated and demanded ‘Open the Way’. Sometimes, they overran border control posts, control operations became rescue operations and subsequently borders were opened and onward migration facilitated. Thousands of volunteers lined the routes to welcome the arrivals and provide humanitarian assistance. But the German mantra ‘we will manage’ successively turned into ‘enough is enough’, and across Europe tensions reach new heights. The events have led to multiple crises: a migration and refugee crisis, a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of border controls and a crisis of the EU. This seminar series contributes to unravelling the migration and refugee crisis, looking at issues such as the dynamics of migration, the politics of number games, the ‘dirty deal’ of the EU with Turkey, and responses by civil society as well as the suffering of individuals.
The seminar series is related to the ESRC project Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis
Unravelling the Mediterranean migration crisis: Reflections from the field
Heaven Crawley, Coventry University
The Mediterranean policy crisis: Evidence for policy. Do the data on arrivals and on deaths inform policy discourse?
Ann Singleton, University of Bristol
Migrant subjectivities and crisis narratives in the Euro-Mediterranean region
Michael Collyer, University of Sussex
Can the EU-Turkey Deal slow down the flow of refugees to Europe?
Metin Corabatir, Research Centre on Asylum and Migration (IGAM), Ankara
Leaving 'the crisis' behind: Sea arrivals, reception regime and the normalisation of the emergency in Italy
Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham
The road to Calais: Migration, trauma and the challenges of local reconciliation
Benedict Coleridge, University of Oxford
Humanitarian and medical assistance for people on the move: MSF experience and challenges
Apostolos Veizis, Médecins Sans Frontières
The refugee crisis and the rule of law. An uneasy match?
Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
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