Les drames en Méditerranée dans la presse romande. Une revue critique

Et un article ad hoc sur la question du « million de personnes » prêt à quitter le Sud de la Méditerranée pour venir en Europe :
Décryptage | Du fantasme du million de personnes prêtes à s’embarquer pour l’Europe

On aura tout lu et entendu sur les naufrages en Méditerranée. Si des articles et témoignages de qualité ont été diffusés, certains chiffres et déclarations, repris en boucle dans les médias, ont attiré notre attention. Une revue de presse détaillée et critique vous est proposée sur notre site. Mais une petite halte s’impose quant à certaines déclarations faites par le directeur de l’agence Frontex (1).

►http://www.asile.ch/vivre-ensemble/2015/07/21/decryptage-du-fantasme-du-million-de-personnes-pretes-a-sembarquer-pour-leurop

Libya: One million migrants ready to reach Europe says EU border chief

Up to one million migrants could reach Europe from Libya amid collapsing security in the northern African country, the European Union’s border agency chief has warned.

▻http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-one-million-migrants-ready-reach-europe-says-eu-border-chief-149083

C’était 2011...
The African invasion that did not happen. Why and how?

Do you remember? Back in February and March of this year, European politicians and the media were sowing fear that Europe was about to face a deluge of African migrants in response to the Arab Spring. Particularly the violence in Libya was predicted to push up to 1.5 million sub-Saharan migrant workers to migrate to Europe. Others believed Gaddafi’s threats that he could unleash a migrant invasion. Images of Tunisian boat migrants arriving on Lampedusa confirmed this image of a looming migration crisis.

▻http://heindehaas.blogspot.ch/2011/09/african-invasion-that-did-not-happen.html

Et en 2017...
The 1 million migrants you haven’t seen

The story that 1 million African migrants are ready or in ‘the pipeline’ to reach Europe from Libya is nothing new and Joseph Walker-Cousins’ claim reported in the Daily Mail has previously been aired by other allegedly well-informed people. It resurfaces periodically in the media (2015, 2016, 2017), but repetition is no proof of validity; rather it is an example of how charts and figures play a significant role in how we understand and debate the so-called refugee crisis and in shaping European policy responses to boat migration. This despite it has been showed (see, for example, Frontex double counting, UK’s alleged generosity vis-a-vis unaccompanied minors, and Frontex again) how the figures being circulated are often inaccurate and partial, or even systematically inflated to serve a range of different purposes, not least to legitimize growing expenditures in border infrastructures and policing, trigger donations by key donors and the public, and feed anti-immigration rhetoric for political gain.

►https://nandosigona.info/2017/04/24/the-1-million-migrants-you-havent-seen

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