Fortress Reason

The mini-summit of states on the so-called Balkan migration route and the United Nations General Assembly both fell short of bringing about meaningful change regarding the universal problem of migration.

The real victims in all this - meaning the millions of people who have been uprooted (in many cases because of the power games being played by some of their host nations) - were nowhere to be seen or to be heard in New York and the Austrian capital. Their frustrations were expressed via mediators, using the language of diplomacy, a language that prohibits expressions of emotion and despair. It was lost in translation.

Recommendations and anxious calls made by the UN (an organization whose power has been compromised since its birth) and by the nations who have shouldered most of the burden, failed to strike a chord with the more trigger-happy who like to agree on...

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