Spectral vessels
Powerful institutional agendas have acted to bolster the ‘ghost ship’ obsession. Such symbolism renders the specificities of Mediterranean migration opaque.
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/theodore-baird-thomas-spijkerboer-paolo-cuttitta/spectral-vessels
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Conclusion :
Just as migrants are abandoned every day to their fate by smugglers in small, unseaworthy vessels, migrants are also abandoned every day to their fate by the border policies of European countries. If we are to be publicly outraged over the suffering that occurs in the context of boat migration, we must express equal moral shock at the European policies which create the market for smuggling in which so many migrants die.