What happens next?
Dominic Bailey of BBC News shows the paradox taking place on the Canary Islands.
Holidaymakers and poor African migrants are both arriving to the islands' beaches. The migrants arrive in fishing boats, some emaciated while others in apparently good condition after days at sea. Both tourists and Red Cross workers distribute water and clothes to the immigrants and then they are taken away by local police to detention centers.
From the artilce, I get a sense that the migrants arrive in waves - they are tended to on the beaches and taken away. After one group is gone:
"The emergency tents of the Red Cross are taken down between landings. The cayucos are emptied of their stinking contents and sprayed clean before being broken up and taken away, the scar removed from the landscape of pleasure boats and giant ferries. Until the next time."
What happens to the migrants after they are taken away? And how long can this continue?
It feels like this situation is made to be normal, the system of taking care of the migrants is established and routine, but temporary. The migrants are like a tourist attraction, the tourist too, temporary. Strange..
These temporary solutions to deep, long term problems that manifest themselves in the need for the people to move, seem not just ineffective but very dangerous and problematic in the long term.
Holidaymakers and poor African migrants are both arriving to the islands' beaches. The migrants arrive in fishing boats, some emaciated while others in apparently good condition after days at sea. Both tourists and Red Cross workers distribute water and clothes to the immigrants and then they are taken away by local police to detention centers.
From the artilce, I get a sense that the migrants arrive in waves - they are tended to on the beaches and taken away. After one group is gone:
"The emergency tents of the Red Cross are taken down between landings. The cayucos are emptied of their stinking contents and sprayed clean before being broken up and taken away, the scar removed from the landscape of pleasure boats and giant ferries. Until the next time."
What happens to the migrants after they are taken away? And how long can this continue?
It feels like this situation is made to be normal, the system of taking care of the migrants is established and routine, but temporary. The migrants are like a tourist attraction, the tourist too, temporary. Strange..
These temporary solutions to deep, long term problems that manifest themselves in the need for the people to move, seem not just ineffective but very dangerous and problematic in the long term.

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