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6. ‘Italian PM Renzi says Austrian border plans are shameless’, 27 April 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-brenner-renzi/italian-pm-renzi-says-austrian-border-plans-are-shameless-idUSKCN0XO1OL; I. Oliveira, ‘Angela Merkel warns against Brenner pass closure’, 5 June 2016, https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-warns-against-brenner-pass-closure-austria-italy-refugees-migrants-crisis/
7. ‘Why is Pope Francis going to Lesbos?’, 16 April 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36053880
8. UNHCR, Lesvos Island – Greece, Factsheet, 12 November 2015, http://www.unhcr.org/protection/operations/5645ddbc6/greece-factsheet-lesvos-island.html
9. R. Schoenbauer, ‘Volunteers who saved lives on Lesvos nominated for Nobel Peace Prize’, 7 October 2016, http://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/latest/2016/10/57f7732d4/volunteers-saved-lives-lesvos-nominated-nobel-peace-prize.html
10. ‘Interview: Pope Francis’, 17 May 2016, https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Pape/interview-Pope-Francis-2016-05-17-1200760633
11. EASO Newsletter, April 2016, https://www.easo.europa.eu/sites/default/files/newsletters/EASO-Newsletter-April-2016.pdf; ‘Greece: Refugees detained in dire conditions amid rush to implement EU–Turkey deal’, 7 April 2016, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/04/greece-refugees-detained-in-dire-conditions-amid-rush-to-implement-eu-turkey-deal/
12. G. Soros, ‘Europe: a better plan for refugees’, 9 April 2016, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/09/europe-how-pay-for-refugees/
13. ‘Prayer, food, sex and water parks in Iran’s holy city of Mashhad’, 7 May 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/may/07/prayerfood-sex-and-water-parks-in-irans-holy-city-of-mashhad; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashhad
14. Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person, 4 May 2016, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0270(01)&from=EN
15. D. McLaughlin, ‘Central European states deride new EU refuges plan’, 5 May 2016, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/central-european-states-deride-new-eu-refugee-plan-1.2636647
16. ‘Remarks by First Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Avramopoulos to the European Parliament Plenary Session’, europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-16-1726_en.pdf
17. ‘EU states face charge for rejecting refugees’, 3 May 2016, https://www.ft.com/content/346ba28a-10b8-11e6-bb40-c30e3bfcf63b
11 Keep Calm and Think of England
1. ‘PM Orban’s Brexit stance “bears weight” in the EU’, 21 June 2016, http://abouthungary.hu/news-in-brief/pm-orbans-brexit-stance-bears-weight-in-the-eu/
2. ‘Orban has already drawn the conclusions of the Brexit decision’, 24 June 2016, https://www.napi.hu/magyar_gazdasag/orban_maris_levonta_a_kovetkezteteset_a_brexit_utan.616695.html
3. M. Pantovic, ‘Violence against migrants on rise in Balkans’, 1 August 2016, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/msf-increase-of-violence-towards-migrants-on-balkan-route-07-29-2016; Jesuit Refugee Service Europe, Annual Report 2016, https://jrseurope.org/Assets/Publications/File/JRS_Europe_annual_report_2016.pdf; Médecins Sans Frontières, Serbia: Games of Violence – Unaccompanied Children and Young People Repeatedly Abused by EU Member State Border Authorities, 3 October 2017, http://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/serbia-games-of-violence-3.10.17.pdf
4. N. Thorpe, ‘Hungary deploys army to push migrants back to Serbia’, 14 July 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36786438
5. ‘Kenya al-Shabab attack: security questions as dead mourned’, 4 April 2015, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32177123
6. ‘Radomir Putnik’, https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radomir_Putnik
7. ‘The German minority in Hungary, 1938–48’: http://www.konfliktuskutato.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=358:a-nemet-kisebbseg-magyarorszagon-1938-1948&catid=43:etnikai-konfliktusok&Itemid=214;
8. ICRC 2016 report, Western Balkans (regional), http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/59490da77.pdf
9. ‘Erdogan’s Turkey’, 13 April 2017, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Erdogans_Turkey
12 The Women of Adaševci
1. UN Summit for refugees and migrants 2016, https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/summit
2. Serbia: Factsheet, http://ec.europa.eu/echo/files/aid/countries/factsheets/serbia_en.pdf
3. ‘Syrian refugees: a journey through mud, fire and cold’, 8 August 2016, https://www.careinternational.org.uk/stories/syrian-refugees-journey-through-mud-fire-and-cold
4. G. Baczynska, ‘Hungary, Slovakia challenge quotas on asylum-seekers at top EU court’, 10 May 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-slovakia-hungary/hungary-slovakia-challenge-quotas-on-asylum-seekers-at-top-eu-court-idUSKBN186222; ‘At Bratislava summit, key question is the future of the EU’, 15 September 2016, http://hu.euronews.com/2016/09/15/pozsonyi-eu-csucs-a-fo-kerdes-az-unio-jovoje
5. ‘Angela Merkel admits mistakes over asylum seekers after disastrous election’, 19 September 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/angela-merkel-admits-mistakes-asylum-seekers-election
6. ‘Orbán and Kaczyński are for counter-cultural revolution in Europe’, 9 September 2016, https://visegradpost.com/en/2016/09/09/orban-and-kaczynski-are-for-counter-cultural-revolution-in-europe/
7. E. Zalan, ‘EU migrant quota idea is finished, Fico says’, 27 September 2016, https://euobserver.com/migration/135245
8. UN Summit for refugees and migrants 2016, http://refugeesmigrants.un.org/summit
9. ‘Figures of the week: UN Summit for refugees and migrants calls for international action’, 23 September 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/09/23/figures-of-the-week-un-summit-for-refugees-and-migrants-calls-for-international-action/
10. Foreign Minister speaks in general debate of UN’ 23 September 2016, http://www.kormany.hu/hu/kulgazdasagi-es-kulugyminiszterium/hirek/szijjarto-peter-felszolal-az-ensz-kozgyulesenek-altalanos-vitajan
11. ‘Remarks by President Obama at leaders summit on refugees’, 20 September 2016, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/20/remarks-president-obama-leaders-summit-refugees
12. ‘UN summit on refugees fails to deliver real solutions’, 20 September 2016, https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/reactions/un-summit-refugees-fails-deliver-real-solutions
13. New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, 19 September 2016, http://www.unhcr.org/new-york-declaration-for-refugees-and-migrants.html
14. ‘Orban’s border blocking policies are comprehensible’, 23 September 2016, https://derstandard.at/2000044795966/Bundeskanzler-Kern-Orbans-Politik-der-Grenzsperren-verstaendlich
15. ‘Pangloss in Brussels – How (not) to implement the Aegean Agreement’, 7 October 2016, https://www.esiweb.org/index.php?lang=en&id=156&document_ID=177
16. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council and the Council, 28 September 2016, https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/european-agenda-migration/proposal-implementation-package/docs/20160928/3rd_report_on_the_progress_made_in_the_implementation_of_the_eu-turkey_statement_en.pdf
17. National Election Office statement on 2 October referendum results, http://www.valasztas.hu/dyn/onepsz201610/szavossz/en/eredind_e.html
18. ‘It turned out just how much pain the quota referendum caused the government’, 3 October 2016, http://nol.hu/belfold/kiderult-mennyibe-fajt-a-kvotanepszavazas-1634635; ‘The weapon will be powerful enough – Viktor Orban’, 2 October 2016, https://www.hirado.hu/2016/10/02/orban-a-fegyver-eleg-eros-lesz-brusszelben-is/
19. Personal communication from source close the government, on Orban’s disappointment.
20. E. Zalan, ‘Orban spins migrant vote result, as EU celebrates’, 3 October 2016, https://euobserver.com
/migration/135329
13 A Slow and Painful Europe
1. ‘New Year’s address by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel’, 31 December 2016, https://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/EN/Pressemitteilungen/BPA/2016/2016-12-31-neujahrsansprache-podcast_en.html
2. ‘Körmend priest accepted refugees’, 14 December 2016, https://www.magyarkurir.hu/hirek/menekulteket-fogadott-be-kormendi-plebanos
3. ‘Bamenda protests: mass arrests in Cameroon’, 23 November 2016, www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38078238
4. Cancer Moonshot webpage, https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancerinitiative
5. ‘“Shockingly high” losses for Afghan forces over winter’, 1 May 2017, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/high-losses-afghan-forces-winter-170501041116344.html
6. ‘Joint way forward on migration issues between Afghanistan and the EU’, 2 October 2016, https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/eeas/files/eu_afghanistan_joint_way_forward_on_migration_issues.pdf
7. ‘Deportations from Germany to Afghanistan’, 12 September 2017, http://www.dw.com/en/deportations-from-germany-to-afghanistan/g-40465731
8. N. Nielsen, ‘EU steps up efforts to repatriate Afghans’, 4 October 2016, https://euobserver.com/migration/135349
9. ‘Germany restarts Afghan deportations, returns eight rejected asylum seekers’, 13 September 2017, https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-afghan-deportations-eight-rejected-asylum-seekers/28733437.html
10. ‘Exodus: Our Journey’, BBC TWO, three episodes, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07ky6ft
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Maria_Ladenburger
12. ‘Hungary: Key Asylum Figures as of 1 September 2016’: https://www.helsinki.hu/wp-content/uploads/HHC-Hungary-asylum-figures-1-September-2016.pdf
13. ‘Pope Francis sends a message to Trump’, 20 January 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2017/live-updates/politics/live-coverage-of-trumps-inauguration/pope-francis-sends-a-message-to-trump/?utm_term=.a4e539161bda
14. ‘Migration: Thousands trapped in freezing temperatures in Greece and the Balkans’, 9 January 2017, http://www.msf.org/en/article/migration-thousands-trapped-freezing-temperatures-greece-and-balkans
14 Borderlands
1. Asylum statistics in Romania: https://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/romania/statistics
2. Emergency Transit Centre, Timișoara: http://www.unhcr.org/ceu/100-enwhat-we-doresettlementetc-timisoara-html.html
3. For video and text reports on their stories, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45340715
4. Asylum requests in Germany, to May 2018, https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/DE/2018/06/asylantraege-mai-2018.pdf?blob=publicationFile&v=5; Asylum quarterly report, 15 June 2018, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report
15 Wish You Were Here
1. http://www.cedarnetwork.org/2017/01/13/difference-demons-adam-b-seligman/
2. BAMF (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees), ‘Child benefit and other benefits’, http://www.bamf.de/EN/Willkommen/KinderFamilie/Kindergeld/kindergeld-node.html
3. ‘Insight: After chemical horror, besieged Syrian suburb defiant’, 4 October 2013, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-zamalka-insight/insight-after-chemical-horror-besieged-syrian-suburb-defiant-idUSBRE9930E420131004
4. ‘Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia’, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czechoslovakia
5. ‘Ansbach suicide bombing-Islamism’, http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-07/ansbachselbstmordanschlag-islamismus/komplettansicht
6. ‘Ansbach attacker: asylum seeker to IS suicide bomber’, 25 July 2016: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36886647
7. ‘New refugee homes open on Bruchsal industrial estate’,1 September 2015, https://www.ka-news.de/region/bruchsal/asyl-karlsruhe./Auf-Bruchsaler-Fabrikgelaende-Neue-Fluechtlingsheime-eroeffnet;art6011,1720912
8. ‘Brigade La Fayette’, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_La_Fayette; J.-D. Merchet, ‘Depuis un an, l’armée française a “éliminé” environ 150 insurgés en Kapissa’, 28 January 2015, http://secretdefense.blogs.liberation.fr/2009/10/26/depuis-un-anlarmee-francaise-a-elimine-environ-150-insurges-en-kapissa/
9. ‘Captain Teacher, un journaliste en uniforme français pour monter une radio afghane’, 1 October 2013, http://www.guerres-influences.com/captain-teacher-journaliste-reserviste-radio-surobi-afghanistan/
10. ‘Calais “jungle” cleared of migrants French prefect says’, 26 October 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37773848
11. AIDA, France: country report, http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/france, last updated 28 February 2018.
12. Swiss Refugee Council, ‘Short overview of the asylum procedure’, http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/switzerland/asylumprocedure/general/short-overview-asylum-procedure
13. ‘The 2015 Swiss elections: a landslide win for the right, despite limited changes in vote shares’, 24 October 2015, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/10/24/the-2015-swiss-elections-a-landslide-win-for-the-right-despite-limited-changes-in-vote-shares/
14. Swiss Confederation, Migration Report 2016, https://www.sem.admin.ch/dam/data/sem/publiservice/berichte/migration/migrationsbericht-2016-e.pdf
Afterword
1. John Berger, Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Verso, 2007).
2. ‘Migration: supporting a robust, realistic and fair EU policy’, https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/budget-may2018-fair-migration-policy_en.pdf
3. ‘On the edge of the Sahara, people mourn the decline of people-smuggling’, Economist, 5 July 2018, https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/07/05/on-the-edge-of-the-sahara-people-mourn-the-decline-of-people-smuggling
4. ‘Turkey–Syria border wall to be completed by spring’, 18 December 2017, http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-syria-border-wall-to-be-completed-by-spring-124303
5. ‘A warning against mass returns to Syria’, Norwegian Refugee Council, 12 March 2018, https://www.nrc.no/news/2018/march/a-warning-against-mass-returns-to-syria/
6. Ivan Krastev, After Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
7. German Federal Elections, final result, https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/2017/ergebnisse/bund-99.html
8. ‘Austrian Foreign Minister Kurz: “Europe’s values cannot be negotiable”’, interview by W. Mayr and M. von Rohr, 1 June 2016, http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-austrian-foreign-minister-sebastian-kurz-a-1094931.html
9. Italian statistics for asylum-seekers, https://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/italy/
10. J. Reynolds, ‘Italy election: what does the result mean?’ 5 March 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43291390
11. ‘Italy government: Guiseppe Conte to head populist coalition’, 1 June 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44322429
12. ‘Stranded migrants: Macron scolds Italy over Aquarius ship’, 12 June 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44452760; ‘Spain foreign minister calls for more EU ambition’, 12 June 2018, https://www.ft.com/content/3eb1891e-6e83-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914
13. Krastev, After Europe.
14. ‘Germany: Crime rate drops, but fear rises’, 7 May 2018, https://www.dw.com/en/germany-crime-rate-drops-but-fear-rises/a-43692277
15. Laudato Si, Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis, 18 June 2018, https://www.romereports.com/en/2015/06/18/read-full-text-of-the-pope-s-encyclical-laudato-si/
16. Jytte Klausen, The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2005).
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INDEX
Abaaoud, Abdelhamid, Bataclan terrorist (i), (ii)
Abdeslam, Salah, Bataclan terrorist (i)
Adaševci, Serbia (i)
ADRA, humanitarian charity (i)
Aegean Sea, migrant and refugee boats (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) (i), (ii)
Afghanistan (i), (ii)
fake documents (i)
Taliban (i), (ii)
view of Erdoğan (i)
wars in (i), (ii)