Tuesday 29 September 2015

Political Cartoon Analysis - The European Migrant Crisis

Pismestrovic, Petar. "Migrants in Europe from Bad and Worse." The Moderate Voice. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. http://themoderatevoice.com/208513/cartoon-migrants-in-europe-from-bad-and-worse/


Migrants in Europe from Bad and Worse

Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria

Last week, the European Union held an emergency summit to decide on the fate of the millions of migrants that are relying on the generosity of European nations to save them. As this cartoon illustrates, that leaving the terror of living under IS is not that different than being absolutely destitute on the borders of European nations. The symbol of the IS knife and the hand of the European Union are the same size in the cartoon. The cartoonist want us to see that the way the migrants are being treated in Europe is not any better than what they faced living under IS. In any normal situation we wold never associate the terror associate IS and the peace dedicated EU, but under these conditions they are both treating the migrants badly. They are pushed on both sides and have nowhere else to go.  The fate of millions of migrants relies on every little decision made by the European Union in the summit this week. The migrants  are risking their live to find a peace in Europe but Europe is not what they expected it to be. The cartoonist is obviously unhappy with the way both  IS and the EU are treating the migrants.  

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