By Gillian West

In September 2015 images of drowned three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi washed ashore on a beach in Turkey dominated the news. The image revealed the true horror of the refugee crisis, a crisis that one year on shows no sign of slowing down and which was described only a few weeks ago by European president Donald Tusk as at “breaking point”.

In the year since Kurdi’s death, more than 4,000 people have lost their lives making similar journeys, according to the International Organisation for Migration, as they flee war and persecution in their homelands.

Yet the dominant discourse around refugees in more Read full story ›

Source: The Drum