Breaking Barriers and Fostering Empathy in Europe “Look Beyond Borders” is a five minute short film and social experiment, created by Amnesty International Poland and…
While intended to mobilize action, the function of innocence in our view of the migrant, as Ticktin argues, only further contributes to limited and harmful…
Much of what how we discuss migration is if and how much a migrant deserves resettlement into a new country. In our class discussions, we…
As the weeks go on, I am progressively learning how truly complex the Migrant crisis is. No wonder it is so hard to “fix” ;…
Ticktin’s article really opened my eyes to the social constructions of innocence and its consequences. One of the statements which really resonated with me was:…
Innocence, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is freedom from legal guilt of a particular crime or offense. Based on Ticktin’s article, my questions are, have we…
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…
“One can either be a citizen or a human but not both.” (44) This statement in Miriam Ticktin’s paper “Where ethics and politics meet:…
The use of the politics of humanitarianism to degrade humans into bodies that are viewed as less than human in France is not something that…
“Catastrophes” by Cristiana Giordano explores the idea of the perceived temporality of the “migrant crisis”. Giordano explains how the perpetuation that the crisis (and the…
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