As the EU prepares to fully implement its Pact on Migration and Asylum on June 12, the memory of Moria remains a point of reference in debates over migration policy. The new framework aims to make asylum procedures more efficient, but it also raises questions about what Europe has learned from its most notorious refugee camp. The first image that returns to me from Davide Marchesi and Majid Bakhshi’s The Ashes of Moria is a child. Mo Zaman, a former resident of Moria Reception and Identification Centre on Lesvos, recalls a fire breaking out inside the camp. As residents rushed to extinguish the flames, he discovered the burned body of a twelve-year-old girl beneath a blanket. He remembers watching her [...]