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Une femme et deux enfants traversent une route dans le camp de réfugiés de Domiz, au Kurdistan Irakien Yuri Kozyrev/Noor Opinion

When camps become cities

03/06/2017 Rony Brauman

There can scarcely be any more sensitive marker of geopolitical transformations than the refugee. Not the individual refugee as such, but the phenomenon of refugees, the representations that make them visible and the discourse around them. From this point of view, 2016 was a year of upheaval, the like of which Europe had not seen since the war in the former Yugoslavia.

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Un homme et ses enfants sous une tente au port du Pirée en Grèce Mohammad Ghannam Opinion

In Europe, confront cynism with hospitality

06/21/2016 Michaël Neuman

World Refugee Day will have served as a near universal reminder of the cynicism of European immigration and asylum policies: dissuasion that sacrifices thousands is the sole pillar of its policy for dealing with people fleeing war, persecution or untenable living conditions.

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