Migrant Welfare: Who’s Responsible? (Excerpt from ’Migrants Stranded on Kos: Europe or Die’)

Demonized by some of the UK’s tabloid press and holiday-makers alike, VICE News meets the actual migrants labeled as “boat people“ on the Greek island of Kos. Many of these migrants have fled the Assad regime and the Islamic State in the Middle East, only to be met with hostility as they reach the island’s shores. The Greek islands are on the new frontier of a major gateway into Europe. The eastern Mediterranean route into Greece, Cyprus, and Bulgaria from Turkey has seen more than 48,000 irregular border