"Every year, thousands of migrants die drowning as they try to cross the Mediterranean Sea, while millions are deported and detained in the concentration camps that Europe has built all along the coast from Turkey to Libya, from Lesbos to Puglia to Calais. Many of them are fleeing the consequences of European colonialism and climate catastrophe, caused in the first place by European fossil modernity. The title of my piece was “Auschwitz on the Beach,” which I intended as both a tribute to the victims of Nazism in the past century, and a tribute to the contemporary victims of European racism and neocolonialism."