Almost 10 years ago, Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian child drowned and washed ashore in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum. The initial reaction to the photo of his lifeless body ignited worldwide sympathy for the plight of Syrian refugees in what was dubbed “Europe’s migration crisis.” Ten years later, has the rhetoric and aid surrounding refugees changed? Is Europe still experiencing a ‘migration crisis’, especially in light of the Russia-Ukraine war? Are we more sympathetic to refugees or only to ones who look a certain way?
Tune in to hear about Alan’s story and our thoughts surrounding the aftermath of his death.
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Love and light,
Khaddija and Lola
- The changing political impact of compassion-evoking
- pictures: the case of the drowned toddler Alan Kurdi - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328521095_The_changing_political_impact_of_compassion-evoking_pictures_the_case_of_the_drowned_toddler_Alan_Kurdi
- The Aunt Of The Drowned Syrian Boy Tells What Happened After The Tragedy - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/31/642952840/an-aunts-memoir-remembering-the-drowned-syrian-boy-on-the-beach
- Al Jazeera documentary on Alan Kurdi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjVq0oX4DPQ
- Too dead? Image analyses of humanitarian photos of the Kurdi brothers - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2020.1731325
- Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With “Small Data”:
- A Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About
- Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (Belgium) - https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/7252/2155
