Will there ever be a solution to the refugee crisis?
Responses to the migration crisis are becoming increasingly diverse as governments turn a blind eye to the Syrian refugee and other crises.
Cairo — On Oct. 10, at least 10 people reportedly drowned off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast as they tried to reach Italy by boat. Ten bodies were recovered from the water, including four Egyptian teenagers from the Nile Delta, while 10 more bodies may simply have disappeared at sea.
The news may have just announced the tail end of the peak season for irregular migration in the Mediterranean, when deteriorating weather and smugglers conscious of dwindling time put migrants’ lives at added risk.
And yet this has been happening all year, replicated on beaches and coastlines around Europe’s southern and eastern borders. In total, the International Organization for Migration estimated in October more than 3,000 people have died trying to reach Europe in 2015.
Border deaths like these raise questions about responses to the migration crisis, which have ranged from a wave of grass-roots volunteerism across mainland Europe to the philanthropism of billionaires.
