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Shipwrecked at Sea:  How Europe's Border Policies Created the World's Deadliest Border
Shipwrecked at Sea:  How Europe's Border Policies Created the World's Deadliest Border

Wed, Nov 15

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Bellarmine Prep School, Connelly Center

Shipwrecked at Sea: How Europe's Border Policies Created the World's Deadliest Border

As Western media focused on the tragic fate of five people in their missing submersible near the Titanic shipwreck last summer, another ship filled with migrants and refugees sank in the Mediterranean Sea one day later, resulting in the deaths of over 650 people, including many women and children.

Time & Location

Nov 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Bellarmine Prep School, Connelly Center, 2300 S Washington St, Tacoma, WA 98405, USA

About the event

Our program will be held at Bellarmine Preperatory School at the Connelly Campuis Center, follow this link to a campus map.

Shipwrecked at Sea: How Europe’s Border Policies Created the World’s Deadliest Border

While Western media focused on the tragic fate of five people in their missing

submersible near the Titanic shipwreck last summer, yet another ship filled with migrants

and refugees sank in the Mediterranean Sea one day later, resulting in the deaths of

over 650 people, including many women and children. This shipwreck was only one of

more than 45 migrant shipwrecks that have taken place this year in the Mediterranean

Sea, which the United Nations has declared the world’s most dangerous border

crossing, with over 27,000 deaths in the past 15 years.

Evergreen State College’s professor of international politics, Dr. Steve Niva has

recently returned from research trips to Morocco, Turkey and Spain and will provide an

overview of how and why the Mediterranean Sea has become a graveyard for migrants

and refugees. He will offer a framework for understanding the global migration crisis

and explain how border externalization policies adopted by the European Union to

prevent arrivals from reaching Europe have led to more dangerous migration routes and

empowered smugglers. He will also identify key policies that could lead to more safe

and humane border policies.

Dr. Steve Niva is a professor of international politics at the Evergreen State College. He

is a specialist in Middle East politics and has been researching the refugee and migrant

crisis in the region for the past five years. He recently led a study abroad program to

Morocco to study the global migration crisis and then worked with Syrian refugees in

Turkey.

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