Editorial: Situations of Violence and Migration

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With images of long lines of refugees fleeing combat zones, images of a slave market in Libya, images of bodies washed up by the sea or dotted along desert tracks, images of police harassment at the borders of Fortress Europe and images of camps and the violence of detention, the media, intellectuals, doctors, humanitarians and NGOs take it upon themselves to remind us on a daily basis of the extent to which violence and migration can be related. Yet, these images tell us nothing about the mo...