Chloe Haralambous is a member of Sea-Watch, coordinating maritime rescue missions in the Central Mediterranean migration corridor, and co-founder of the Mosaik Support Center for Refugees and Locals on the Greek island of Lesvos. She is also a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
From the slaughtering of migrants in Melilla, to Greece offering asylum seekers permits to remain for helping to beat and deport other migrants, the reality of the “European dream” is violent and exploitative, writes Chloe Haralambous.
Greece’s latest use of MENA migrants to illegally pushback refugees to Turkey is sadistic, but it is perfectly in line with violent European border policies and ‘values’ that attempt to break the spirit of the oppressed, writes Chloe Haralambous.