The Terrible Flight from the Killing
Hugh Eakin
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/22/terrible-flight-killing
At the heart of the current crisis is a fundamental problem: there are virtually no legal ways for a refugee to travel to #Europe. You can only apply for asylum once you arrive in a European country, and since the EU imposes strict visa requirements on most non-EU nationals, and since it is often impossible to get a European visa in a Middle Eastern or African country torn apart by war, the rules virtually require those seeking protection to take a clandestine journey, which for most would be impossible without recourse to smugglers.
