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2017b). Between 2016 and 2017 more than six people died in the Moria camp. Self-harm
and suicide attempts there have become routine. Rapes and sexual violence are
routinised too. Meanwhile, border crossers are forced into survival sex inside and outside
the camp, in order to financially survive.
In the aftermath of the refugee crisis, the EU’s “humanitarian” response at the borders which peaked after the EU-Turkey Statement - turned the everyday life of the thousands
of border crossers into a living hell. Border crossers fleeing in order to seek international
protection are trapped in a coercive, violent existence. Due to the coerced border controls
on land and at sea, and the arbitrary push-backs and deportations, border crossers
cannot easily reach Europe. The ones who manage to come are “victims” of intersectional
forms of everyday violence. Moria camp and more broadly the Prison Island have become
an immense graveyard of the dead, the social dead, and the “living-dead” (ScheperHughes & Bourgois, 2004).
By paraphrasing Sandro Mezzandra and Brett Neilson (2013, p. 171), the dream of an EU
humanitarian approach to border security is a dream and an insatiable desire of the EU
policymakers. However, their dream or vision is a horrifying and lurid nightmare for the
thousands of border crossers.
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