Screening and group discussion: Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea, dir. Amel Alzakout (2020, c. 23min)

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• Thursday 30 November 2023, 16:30-18:00
• Alison Richard Building, S2.

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‘On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast—the Greek island of Lesvos. The sea was rough, and the boat was old and overcrowded with more than 300 passengers. It sank 280m beyond the maritime border into Greece, in EU territorial waters, resulting in the death of at least 43 people. It was the deadliest incident in a period known as the ‘long summer of migration’, when over a million refugees and migrants attempted to reach EU shores by sea […] One of the survivors, the artist Amel Alzakout recorded the journey and the shipwreck on a waterproof camera attached to her wrist. This footage provides a unique situated perspective of this tragic event at the threshold of Europe.’

See Borders, colonialism, and migration Study Group https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/events/2023-24-thinking-borders-colonialism-and-migration-withthrough-images-borders-colonialism-and

Centre for Global Human Movement https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/

This talk is part of the Borders, colonialism, and migration Study Group. Centre for the Study Global Human Movement series.

This talk is part of the Borders, colonialism, and migration Study Group. Centre for the Study Global Human Movement series.

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