Friday, June 03, 2011

The Camp of the Saints Archive

Camp of the Saints: The Cultural Enrichment Thermometer

For readers who are new to our “Camp of the Saints” series: the title refers to the apocalyptic refugee scenario described in Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints.

Since early April I’ve been referring to the migration wave from North Africa across the Mediterranean as “The Camp of the Saints”. The refugee crisis began in January as soon as the uprising in Tunisia got going in earnest, and intensified as the “Arab Spring” spread to other countries in the region. Since NATO began its air war on Libya, most of the new refugees have been fleeing the Libyan civil war.

By popular request, I’ve collected links to all our previous articles about the “Camp of the Saints” refugee crisis. The reference list below will be updated as new posts are added to the series:

2011 Mar 27 The Freezing of the Rhine
  Apr 6 The “Camp of the Saints” Crisis
    8 Today’s “Camp of the Saints” Update
    9 Camp of the Saints: Daily Briefing
    10 Camp of the Saints: Sunday Roundup
    11 Camp of the Saints: A Hiatus
    16 Camp of the Saints: The Schengen Agreement
    16 Camp of the Saints: The Week in Brief
    16 Camp of the Saints: Saturday Update
    18 Camp of the Saints: Stop the Trains!
    19 Camp of the Saints: A Bigger Boat
    20 Camp of the Saints: Relocation
    21 Camp of the Saints: New Destinations
    21 Camp of the Saints: A Strategy for Surrender
    24 Camp of the Saints: Looking for Living Space
    29 Camp of the Saints: Letting Diplomacy Work
    30 Camp of the Saints: The Invasion
  May 5 Camp of the Saints: The Rising Flood
    5 Camp of the Saints: The Shape of Things to Come
    6 Camp of the Saints: The Numbers Game
    7 Camp of the Saints: The Money Game
    7 Camp of the Saints: From Libya With Love
    7 Camp of the Saints: A German Perspective
    10 Camp of the Saints: Death on the High Seas
    15 Camp of the Saints: Opening the Floodgates
    18 Camp of the Saints: The Numbers Game Redux
    21 Camp of the Saints: Fleeing in All Directions
    23 Camp of the Saints: Trucking Across Europe
    28 Camp of the Saints: The Temperature Rises
  Jun 1 Camp of the Saints: Landing in Sicily
    2 Camp of the Saints: The Ones Who Didn’t Make It
    5 Camp of the Saints: Rediscovering Sovereignty
    9 Camp of the Saints: The Blame Game
    11 Camp of the Saints: The Maltese Angle
    11 Camp of the Saints: How Many Infidels?
    13 Camp of the Saints: Recalibrating the Numbers
    16 Camp of the Saints: Arrivals, Failures, Detentions, and Deportations
    19 Camp of the Saints: The UNHRC Weighs In
    20 Camp of the Saints: The Sheep Make Landfall
    28 Camp of the Saints: Another Lull?
    29 Camp of the Saints: The Flood Resumes
  Jul 2 Camp of the Saints: Three More at Lampedusa
    3 Camp of the Saints: Vacation Time… Not!
    9 Camp of the Saints: A Midsummer’s Evaluation
    14 Camp of the Saints: The Unwanted
    16 Camp of the Saints: Back to Tunisia
  Aug 3 Camp of the Saints: Playing Catch-Up
    10 Camp of the Saints: The 50,000 Mark
    15 Camp of the Saints: The August Surge
    16 Camp of the Saints: Whose Numbers?
    20 Camp of the Saints: Overwhelming the Facilities
    28 Camp of the Saints: The Fall Guy
  Sep 3 Camp of the Saints: Desperate for Enrichment
    12 Camp of the Saints: The Flow Resumes
    19 Camp of the Saints: Death Off the Coast of Algeria
  Oct 3 Camp of the Saints: Revised Numbers, Yet Again
  Nov 13 Camp of the Saints: A Wrap-Up
2012 Jan 1 Camp of the Saints: A Postscript

4 comments:

Hesperado said...

Thanks Baron, this really helps, and is likely a unique reportorial resource on this issue.

Reg T said...

I'm woefully ignorant: have all or most of these "refugees" been muslim, or have some of the Christians being persecuted in the Middle East made it out of their respective countries?

Hesperado said...

Reg T,

See my essay,
The Mediterranean Boat People: Black refugees from Arabic racism?

BunBun4life said...

Yeah but even a majority of the blacks are SOMALIAN, OR SUDANESE, Ethiopian, whatever and they ARE muslim too. I live in Sweden and am surrounded by Somalians, I just can't stand the sight of them.