Migration Mobilities Bristol – New thinking on people and movement (migration.blogs.bristol.ac.uk, link):
“Memorials to people who have died and to those missing during migration – Reflections on the first WUN-funded workshop By Martin Preston, University of Bristol:
Memorials form one way in which public memory is created and reproduced (Dickinson, et al, 2010). The shores of Lesvos and the water around it serve as the final resting place for many of those lost. Initiated by ‘Welcome to Europe’ a purpose-made physical recognition of the dead and missing of the ongoing migration ‘crisis’, a monument at the shores at Thermi on the East of the island was destroyed by unknown perpetrators. However the spot remains a focal point to remember those who have died, as happens annually since October 2013.”