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New blog post by Nick Vaughan-Williams for the European Green Journal
A new blog post by Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams, entitled 'Europe's border crisis as an autoimmune disorder', has been published by the European Green Journal.
"A crisis point has emerged, whereby the figure of the ‘irregular’ migrant is seen as both a security threat to the European Union (EU) and its borders and as a life that is itself threatened and in need of saving by the EU and its agencies. This contradiction leads to paradoxical situations in the field of EU border politics whereby humanitarian policies and practices frequently expose ‘irregular’ migrants to dehumanising and sometimes lethal security mechanisms."
The full article can be accessed here: http://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/author/nick-vaughan-williams/