This presentation can be used with students and young people to explain the context of the European refugee crisis. It chronicles the events and internal divisions that have led to Europe's inability/unwillingness to deal with the largest movement of people since World War II.
13. 62%
Percentage of those who have reached Europe who qualify for refugee status,
according to the UN
14. 0.027%
The percentage of migrants to have reached Europe this year as a proportion of the
Europe’s total population of 740 million (200,000)
15. 1.2 million
The number of Syrian refugees housed in Lebanon, a country with a total population
of 4.5 million, 100 x smaller than the EU with 50 x as many refugees as the EU
16. 22,400
The number of migrants who’ve died trying to reach Europe between 1996 and 2014,
according to the International Organisation for Migration
29. Chronology
Confluence of events that have
divided and paralysed Europe
● The fall of the Wall, 1989
● EU enlargement, 2004
● Mass internal migration, 2004-
2013
● The Great Recession, 2008
● Euro crisis and contagion, 2009
● Arab Spring, 2011
● Nato bombing of Libya, 2011
● Syria civil war, 2011-present
● Refugee crisis point, 2015
30.
31.
32.
33. All Europeans are equal but some Europeans
are more equal than others...
34.
35. “...It’s hard for us to regard Europe as a whole as something that belongs to us, as our
homeland, our inheritance. We are strangers in it; we come from outside, from lands
about which Europe itself has only the vaguest notion and which it treats more like a
threat than a part of itself.”
- Andrzej Stasiuk, Fado
40. “In the latest history, the history that is happening right now, our Third World Others
are gaining ever greater and ever more meaningful subjectivity. That is the first thing,
and secondly, there is an invasion happening…of representatives of the Third World
into developed countries. …How prepared are we, the citizens of Europe, for this
change? Not very, I’m afraid to say. We treat the Other above all as a stranger (yet the
Other does not have to mean a stranger), as the representative of a separate species,
but the most crucial point is that we treat him as a threat.”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Other
47. Muhammed
Lamin Jadama
The work of photographer
and activists Muhammed
Lamin Jadama is tracing
the quiet and dramatic
moments of the refugees'
daily lives. This image
shows a man entering an
Italian refugee camp, so far
from everything that It's
almost impossible to get in
contact with society.
