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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…
![The innocence of all](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Moving and Changing Innocence](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Mental Image Matters](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
As the weeks go on, I am progressively learning how truly complex the Migrant crisis is. No wonder it is so hard to “fix” ;…
![Social Constructions Surrounding Innocence and Helplessness](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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:…
![Power Shift of Innocence](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![Lost Space and Time](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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…
![The Cost of Political Recognition](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
“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 Dangers of Humanitarianism](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/10/Humanitarianism--235x140.jpg)
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…
![Reducing Migrants to Their Border Crossing Experiences](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
“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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