On human movement in an age of shrinking states and expanding borders.
The crisis is what it's always been - Europe's treatment of unwanted migrants leaves people destitute, taking clandestine routes, using the services of smugglers and traffickers which might be providing a service, but at the same time exploiting people and exposing them to greater risk. And the real risk now is that as far-right politics come to the fore, this is going to get worse unless it's challenged.
Journalist Daniel Trilling explains why Europe's refugee crisis is really a global border crisis - exposing the failures of the state to aid the stateless in a warming, violent world, shifting political power from the failing liberal center to the surging far right, and devaluing freedom and human lives to prop up a crumbling order.
Daniel is author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe from Verso.
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Daniel Trilling
Daniel Trilling is a journalist and author based in London. He is also an associate lecturer in journalism at London College of Communication, where he helps out with the Refugee Journalism Project, a training and mentoring scheme for exiled media workers in the UK.
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