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The Mediterranean Migration Crisis

Friday, October 16, 2015, 09:30am - 06:00pm

    

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The world is experiencing an unprecedented refugee crisis. As many as 59 million people, responding to the savage increase of global violence and economic oppression are fleeing on foot, in small boats, and in suffocating transport containers in order to make a better life for themselves. The Mediterranean Sea has become a turbulent site of this catastrophe, a perilous thoroughfare for African refugees seeking entry into the seeming haven of opportunity and safety on the European continent.

European nation-states, facing the insuperable challenge of accommodating asylum seekers, are shutting down their borders, or trying to do so. The presence of these refugees has challenged European identity, bringing to the fore numerous unresolved legacies of European colonialism on the African continent.

The Center for African Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of Italian invite the Rutgers community and the public to join us in examining this overwhelming reality in a multidisciplinary symposium with the hope that our intellectual and artistic exploration will raise awareness of this global catastrophe, and stimulate some programmatic response to this ongoing crisis.

http://ruafrica.rutgers.edu/migration_crisis/

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