Border violence is a growing area of concern across the world. Literary scholar Dr. Olga Michael shares insights on how it is perceived in the West.

Border violence is a growing area of concern across the world. Literary scholar Dr. Olga Michael shares insights on how it is perceived in the West.
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When I think about what is happening to refugees in the Mediterranean, I realize that history repeats itself in harsh ways.
On June 20, people around the world took note of #WorldRefugeeDay. But for the 60 million people who became refugees this past year, many whom are now languishing in camps in Greece, Turkey, and elsewhere, a day and a hashtag are just points in a line without end.
The war that has so far claimed over a quarter million Syrian lives, including those of 30,000 children, has also displaced Thair and his entire family, disrupted his studies, and left the recent university graduate feeling squeezed out of the successful future he had long imagined and worked hard to achieve.
For a moment last summer the photograph of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the shores of Izmir, roused near-universal empathy for people seeking refuge in Europe from violent conflict at home. Of the more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan, who arrived in Europe since the beginning of 2015, over 85 percent entered Europe through Greece.
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