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Items by Semanur Pekkendir
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The refugee crisis is not as Eurocentric as before, but it still exists
It has been three years since the European Union signed the “one in, one out” deal with Turkey on 18 March, 2016. The ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Greek Islands shows that the refugee issue has not been solved; instead, it is simply being contained on the periphery of Europe…
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Why the label ‘migrant’ should bother you
Summer 2015 saw the fixation of international media outlets upon “Europe’s Migrant Crisis”. It was the largest wave of mass-migration that Europe has faced since the end of the Second World War. Al-Jazeera instigated a debate about the media coverage of people crossing the Mediterranean to seek a life in…