Ironically, humans migrating into German borders become lost into discrimination, prison-like camps, and other forms of violence that resemble that of the Holocaust. People disappear from having identities into figures. As Andrea Muehlebach describes in her piece “Camp in the City”,  migrants no longer resemble solely themselves as individuals, but rather of the migrant population as a whole. One mess up of this image, and the forgiving, kind spirit of German citizens is easily lost.

The harassment of German women by groups of North African men certainly surprised me. I could never imagine anyone acting so terribly inhumanely, especially the African migrants we had Skyped with in class. However, human desperation and violence tends to propagate itself. Taking into context the violent beatings of private security guards during wall climb crossings and the forces that led migrants to borders, we can imagine how violence has cycled.

Another theme that can be found in this piece is irresponsibility. No one wants to be responsible for 5000 migrants’ registration. No one wants to be responsible for their country’s previous actions. No one wants to be responsible for the violence. It is through this cycle of lost responsibility that we find people lost in space, finding no place to stay, and in time, drawing immense similarities with historical humanitarian mistakes. Simply eroding migration processes will only result in more loss and shows more fear of accountability. If not, it is only a matter of time that more violence will occur with migration globally. Let us not have our humanity be lost too.