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In 2014, a Syrian woman decided to rescue herself and her two children, an infant and a toddler, from the violence of the civil war. Once she arrived in Turkey, she boarded a smuggler’s worn-out boat at the port city of Mersin in order to apply for asylum in Italy. Early into the crossing, the woman’s infant fell ill and died shortly thereafter.
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Safouane, H. (2019). Introduction. In: Stories of Border Crossers. Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27403-0_1
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