Reception of migrants: "At European level, what we see above all are walls"
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Bosnian and Croatian border guards facing migrants, in Maljevac, October 24, 2018. REUTERS / Marko Djurica
By: Andréane Meslard
7 min
Five years ago, the photo of Aylan, a 3-year-old boy found dead drowned face down on a Turkish beach, was touring the world.
The sad fate of this child fleeing Syria at war with his parents has raised international awareness of the reality of the migration crisis, its gravity and its consequences.
At the time, European countries tried to react, but very quickly the reception infrastructure found itself saturated and the situation got out of hand.
Five years later, where are we with this migration crisis?
Some answers with Virginie Guiraudon, research director at the CNRS and author of Immigration policies in Europe (L'Harmattan).
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