On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, award-winning journalist Jeanne Carstensen discusses her new book, A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis.
She tells the story of migrants who survived a deadly 2015 shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. About 80 people died, but the exact number may never be known. In 2015, over a million refugees arrived on the Greek islands, using them as a gateway in their desperate bid to reach safety in Europe.
Guest:
Jeanne Carstensen, award-winning journalist and the author of A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
Resources:
The Guardian: ‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece
DW: German-Greek relations face crisis over refugee policy
AP: Greece threatens rejected asylum seekers with jail under tougher new migration policy
