Europe’s Mathematical Formula for Deciding Where Refugees Get Asylum - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/formula-european-union-refugee-crisis/404503
“So, how do they decide how many refugees each country should receive? ‘Well, it’s very simple...’”
What’s most striking to me is the contrast between the sigmas and subscripts in the refugee formula—the inhumanity of technocratic compromise by mathematical equation—and the raw, tragic, heroic humanity on display in recent coverage of the refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, and elsewhere who are pouring into Europe.