title: Crossing the Mediterranean: Media Coverage of Europe’s 21st century Refugee Crisis
abstract: The history of mankind is replete with movements of human beings across our large planet. People moved or were forced to move because they could no longer live at one place in peace and stability. Wars and famines were common reasons to uproot the tents and move on to greener pastures but there were other reasons as they are still today. One of the major causes of leaving one’s homeland is inter-tribal or inter-ethnic rivalry and the other is religious persecution. As we see in Middle-East or We
journal: Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications