The European ideal has sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean with the migrants it rejects

The European Union prizes the freedom of movement its citizens enjoy. Yet this depends on securing ‘Fortress Europe’ against non-Europeans – including the thousands who drown trying to cross the Mediterranean. The freedom of movement accorded citizens of the Schengen zone is dependent on the securitisation of its common external border against the unwanted ‘Other’.

Claire Sutherland asks how the Union can tolerate squalid migrant camps that are, in the words of its own migration commissioner, ‘an insult to our values and civilisation’.

ESO: Find further information sources on this topic in ESO http://www.europeansources.info/advSearchLink?subject=2.1.c

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

ESO: Background information: Europe’s wall against African migrants is almost complete http://www.europeansources.info/record/europes-wall-against-african-migrants-is-almost-complete/

ESO: Background information: NGOs under attack for saving too many lives in the Mediterranean http://www.europeansources.info/record/ngos-under-attack-for-saving-too-many-lives-in-the-mediterranean/

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