While the EU claims these hotspots are going to be the saving grace to help control the flow of refugees into Europe, the truth of the matter is a lot of pressure and responsibility has been cast onto Greece, and they’re coming up short “Greece is an easy and convenient target. A country with few resources, battling recession and social strife, is being asked to handle a humanitarian crisis of gigantic proportions with little help from its friends.” In addition, author Giorgos Christides explains that “only one of the five planned hotspots in Greece actually exists and is sufficiently operational” and second, “the planned hotspots on the other four Greek Islands have been hampered by opposition from local residents and mayors, red tape and a lack of funding and resources.” Without the proper resources and lack of help form the EU Greece’s Minister of the interior, Alexis Tsipras has admitted that there is a real fear running through Greece right now “that a lack of progress will be an excuse by EU countries to raise more walls, close more borders. Greece could go from being a transit country to being a bottleneck, a “warehouse.” So it seems much of the responsibility of these issues lies with the EU and while places like Greece are waving there arms and begging for help, the EU is closing the door as if they don 't hear the cries of people …show more content…
As Chakrabarty quotes Naomi Sakai in Provincializing Europe, “The West…it is evidently, a name always associating itself with those regions, communities, and peoples that appear politically or economically superior to other regions, communities, and peoples.”(3)However, one must wonder, if Europe really is beleived to be this superior place, why are they failing so miserably in regards to the refugees crisis? It seems that while everyone acknowledges there is a problem, but no one believes it is their responsibility to fix it. According to the article “How to manage the migrant crisis”, this whole problem could have been solved all along “if European Union countries had worked together, as Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, has always wished.” Instead it appears that Europe has been thrust into chaos and unless it restores its order “political pressure will force Mrs. Merkel to clamp down unilaterally, starting a wave of border closures.” This article goes on to suggest several different ways to manage this migrant crisis including the increase of aid to those fleeing civil wars or other dangers, reviewing applications for asylum while refugees are still in the middle east or where there are hotspots available, and by the sheer