Maresi Starzmann
Maresi Starzmann is an anthropologist with a background in the arts and education. She is a Project Manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, where she works on issues of migration, climate change, and far right extremism.
A ferry service that connects Morocco and Spain offers tourists rides between the European and African continents. The trip of one and a half hours costs $40 (US) for a one-way ride. For refugees trying to cross the sea on rubber dinghies or fiberglass boats, the same journey takes days and it can cost up to several thousand dollars.
