"[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

"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

"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

#refugees #AsylumSeekers #migrants #MigrantsAtSea #SearchAndRescue #xenophobia #racism #classism

"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