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Lights in the Distance by Daniel Trilling review – human face of the refugee crisis

A powerful study of the EU’s border system

In 1990, 20 countries had walls or fences on their borders. By 2016 that figure had risen to almost 70. According to Trilling, the EU “has perhaps the world’s most complex system to deter unwanted migrants” and its external frontier is becoming increasingly fortified.

Since 1993, more than 33,000 people have died as a result of the EU’s “militarised border system”, which forces migrants to take ever greater risks. Yet the 1951 Refugee Convention obliges states to assess asylum seekers as individuals and not to force them back into countries where they are in danger.

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from Culture | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MHcLNU
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