The Covid-19 pandemic has allowed states to enact emergency measures which curtail the right and freedom to move, within Europe and beyond. While some measures seem justified in order to contain the spread of a dangerous virus, European authorities have used this health crisis to normalise the already existing practice […]
Migrants
The better angels of our nature?
Is violence decreasing worldwide? This is the question addressed by Steven Pinker (professor of psychology, Harvard), to which he answers a resounding, albeit qualified, 800 page ‘Yes!’ Nigel Pocock For hundreds of years violence has been dropping, even if there are huge spikes in the downward graph caused […]
Picturing the refugee and migrant experience
In “The Castle”, Richard Mosse deploys hi-tech thermographic cameras of the kind associated with stealth surveillance by the military. He uses the technology to record moments of life in refugee camps and border crossings along the migration routes into Europe from neighbouring continents. Sean Sheehan The site for […]
Solidarity with the GRT community, their homes and lands
In November last year, the Conservative Party published a manifesto that could have serious consequences for families who travel frequently or whose home is also their method of transport, and for minorities such as the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community. An event to discuss this topic and to build solidarity […]
Militarisation, cynicism, lack of solidarity and cruelty towards immigrants
More than 20,000 migrants have died from 2014 to today as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe. Five years after the worst migratory crisis of recent history, violence is again becoming the answer to the arrival of thousands of people fleeing war and hunger.