Wed, Nov 15
|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.