Calais: What crisis? Whose crisis?
Paul FitzPatrick is prompted to ask some questions
Images of refugee trains crossing Europe have replaced those of asylum camps in Calais in the rapidly evolving media framing of a ‘migrant crisis’ facing the UK. But how should we approach the task of thinking about this crisis? If it is a crisis, what kind of crisis is it?
Is it a crisis of shame? Are we ashamed at having done so little to support those forced to flee the wars in Syria and Afghanistan, and at our part in these wars?
Or is it a military crisis of a different kind? Is Britain under threat of invasion by a powerful enemy, requiring the deployment of the army?
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