GREECE: Solidarity protests with refugees
On World Refugee Day, 20 June, around 2,000 people protested in Athens against the government evicting migrants and refugees from temporary accommodation. Anti-racist groups, joined by refugees from migrant camps, held banners reading ‘No refugee homeless, persecuted, jailed’. But the government’s response was to announce that the lockdown in migrant camps would be extended for two weeks, despite having reopened the country’s borders in the hope of attracting tourism.
While the violence of pushbacks in the Aegean is scandalous and should be treated as such, it is by no means an aberration from the logic of Europe’s border regime, which instrumentalises human suffering for the purpose of deterring migration, at any cost.
Maya Thomas-Davis
