Migrants storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest...Migrants storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, September 3, 2015 as Hungarian police withdrew from the gates after two days of blocking their entry. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Migrants storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest. Hungarian police withdrew from the gates after two days of blocking their entry: photo by Laszlo Balogh/Reuters, 3 September 2015

#humanitywashedashore

This image of the body of a Syrian boy drowned today on a Turkish beach is emblematic of the world's failure in Syria: image via Liz Sly @LizSly, 2 September 2015

Photo of drowned boy a reminder of human toll of migrant crisis (WARNING: Disturbing Images): image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 September 2015

@GulwaliP #humanitywashedashore new tag for #migrantcrisis child died in the hope of safety. #refugeeswelcome: image via Aneela Ahmed @ahmed_aneela, 2 September 2015

Family of children found on Turkish beach were trying to come to Canada: Terry Glavin. Ottawa Citizen, 2 September 2015

The two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach Wednesday were Kurdish refugees from Kobane, Syria, whose family had been desperately trying to emigrate to Canada.

Galip Kurdi, five, and his three-year-old brother Aylan died along with their mother Rehan and eight other refugees when their boat overturned in a desperate flight from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos.

The boys’ father, Abdullah, survived. His family says his only wish now is to return to Kobane with his dead wife and children, bury them, and be buried alongside them.

“I heard the news at five o’clock in this morning,” Teema Kurdi, Abdullah’s sister, said Wednesday. The telephone call came from Ghuson Kurdi, the wife of another brother, Mohammad. “She had got a call from Abdullah, and all he said was, my wife and two boys are dead.”

Teema, a Vancouver hairdresser who emigrated to Canada more than 20 years ago, said Abdullah and Rehan Kurdi and their two boys were the subject of a “G5” privately sponsored refugee application that was rejected by Citizenship and Immigration in June, owing to the complexities involved in refugee applications from Turkey.

The family had two strikes against them –- like thousands of other Syrian Kurdish refugees in Turkey, the UN would not register them as refugees, and the Turkish government would not grant them exit visas.

“I was trying to sponsor them, and I have my friends and my neighbours who helped me with the bank deposits, but we couldn’t get them out, and that is why they went in the boat. I was even paying rent for them in Turkey, but it is horrible the way they treat Syrians there,” Teema said.

Fin Donnelly, the MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, said he’d hand-delivered the Kurdis’ file to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander earlier this year. Alexander said he would look into it, Donnelly said, but the Kurdis’ application was rejected in June. Alexander could not be reached for comment.

“This is horrific and heartbreaking news,” Donnelly said. “The frustration of waiting and the inaction has been terrible.”

Canada and Turkey have long been at loggerheads over the bottleneck blocking Syrian refugees in Turkey from finding their way to Canada. It is not uncommon for Kurds in Syria to be arbitrarily denied passports, and to have great difficulty registering as refugees with the UNHCR.

The Turkish government refuses to issue exit visas to unregistered refugees not holding valid passports.

Refugee child's body on beach shocks the world #KiyiyaVuraninsanlik: image via dw news @dwnews, 3 September 2015

A Turkish police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on September 2, 2015 after a boat carrying refugees sank while reaching the Greek island of Kos. Thousands of refugees and migrants arrived in Athens on September 2, as Greek ministers held talks on the crisis, with Europe struggling to cope with the huge influx fleeing war and repression in the Middle East and Africa.

A Turkish police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, after a boat carrying refugees sank while reaching the Greek island of Kos. Thousands of refugees and migrants arrived in Athens on September 2, as Greek ministers held talks on the crisis, with Europe struggling to cope with the huge influx fleeing war and repression in the Middle East and Africa: photo by AFP, 2 September 2015

The world must find a way to end the suffering of so many in War. Syrian baby washed up on the shore #migrantcrisis: image via Jargalsaikhan @SJJargalsaikhan, 2 September 2015

Attempts to deter migrants don’t work. Why Europe should embrace them instead: image via Reuters Opinion @ Reuters Opinion, 2 September 2015

Leap of Faith

Zebra thinking about crossing. @AFPPhoto by @CarldeSouza1, currently shooting the migration in #Kenya's Masai Mara: image via Stefan Smith @StefanASmith, 2 September 2015

Awful images #migrantcrisis in Europe, man [from Guinea] wrapped up inside engine of car [at Spanish border]. Utterly heartbreaking, awful: image via Yalda Hakim @BBCYaldaHakim, 2 September 2015

Des migrants tentent de traverser la frontière entre la Serbie et la Hongrie #AFP via @AureliaBAILLY: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP, 31 August 2015

Sakir Khader on Twitter: @Hungary-#Serbia: I don't think words can describe her feelings." #migrant crisis: image via Refugee Studies Bot @RefugeeStudyBot, 2 September 2015

Station to Station

Des réfugiés débarquent par milliers au Pirée, pression accrue sur le nord de l’Europe #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 2 September 2015

#migrants Hungary Protest rally to demand to travel to Germany today in Budapest. #AFP photo by Ferenc Isza: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 September 2015

#migrantcrisis Hungarian police officers face a group migrants in Kispest station, Budapest. #AFP Photo by @afpattila: image via aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAIlLY, 2 September 2015

#MigrantCrisis Chaos in Hungary as Europe migrant crisis escalates. Photo @afpattila #AFP #Hungary via SBeaugeAFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP, 1 September 2015

#migrantcrisis Migrants rest on a platform at Vienna's Westbahnhof train station on September 1. #AFP by Joe Klamar: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 1 September 2015

#Migrants rest on train from Budapest to Munich at Austrian-Hungarian border in Hegyeshalom. By @vladimirsmicek #AFP: image via Sophie Chauveau @s_chauveauAFP, 1 September 2015

Hundreds of migrants protest in Budapest, demanding they be allowed to travel to Germany: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 1 September 2015

Hundreds of migrants protest in front of Budapest train station for second straight day: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 September 2015

Angry protests erupt as #Hungary again blocks path of refugees. #migrantcrisis: image via CBC News Alerts @CBCAlerts, 2 September 2015

#MigrantCrisis Migrants burst into Budapest station. Photo by Peter Kohalmi #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 3 September 2015

Migrants coming from Budapest arrested by police in Bicske. #AFP photo by Istvan Bielik: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 3 September 2015

Hungarian police watch over migrants outside Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary: photo by Bernadett Szabo/Reuters, 2 September 2015

Following the Tracks

In #Iceland, 13,000 ask the government to take in more #refugees from #Syria #migrantcrisis: image via The Age @theage, 2 September 2015

Syrian refugees and migrants on their way from Serbia to Hungary as they walk on a railway line: photo by Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 2 September 2015

#MigrantCrisis Syrian refugees and migrants try to cross from Serbia into Hungary near Horgos. By @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 2 September 2015

#migrantcrisis Along a railway line to cross Serbia into Hungary near Horgos on September 1 #AFP @ArisMessinis: image via AureliaBAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 September 2015

The refugee crisis is polarizing the European Union.: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 2 September 2015

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A migrant, hoping to cross into Hungary, plays with a child along a railway track outside the village of Horgos in Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 1 September 2015

Boundary Issues: My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

My little white 3-D printed personal robotic spider dress marks out, establishes and defends my personal animatronic arachnidal boundaries

mapping the perimeters and suggesting the dangers that lie in store for those who attempt to cross

over the border into my personal space -- the zones of prohibition are protected

by the nine retractable tentacular plates in

the assistive adaptive autonomous environment of

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress, which,

guided by emotional monitoring, body temperature readout, brain scan

and hormonal disturbance early warning

systems implanted, sewn on my CNC mill, and soldered into chips,

snap out to capture any intruder in the moment

of transgression, stun, disarm and instantly kill

and so now I can couple my body with an EEG

to protect me from

........................YOU

I can record my respiration

I can calibrate each beat of my heart

I can make a 3-D holographic simulation

I can continually cartographically display my biosignals and store them in the computer brain of

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

where all the data gets transferred so that I can create an interface

allowing me to be here in Silicon Valley in my little white badass

personal robotic animatronic spider dress

...................................................while YOU

remain always on the other side of the border maintained and guarded with vigilance by

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

I can use my emotions

as a weapon

as a tool

as a barrier

as a menu for methods of torture

I wouldn't get caught dead without my little white 3-D printed

personal robotic spider dress

...................................and if YOU

come too close

the penetration

of my personal space

will be immediately detected and

set off my personal alarm system

and my personal robotic spider dress will automatically extend its tentacular plates toward

..............................YOU

but don't think you're the first capture

but don't think you're the first to be consumed by

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht modeled at Las Vegas International Computer Electronics Show: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht (close-up detail): photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

A young child waits in line at a migrant reception center in Brussels on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Hundreds of migrants are arriving every day in Belgium, some making perilous journeys through Europe

A young child waits in line at a migrant reception centre in Brussels on Tuesday. Hundreds of migrants are arriving every day in Belgium, some making perilous journeys through Europe: photo by Virginia Mayo/AP, 1 September 2015

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Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht (detail showing retractable "protection" plates, r.): photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht, seen metamorphosing for the industry: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Family of children found on Turkish beach were trying to come to Canada: Terry Glavin. Ottawa Citizen, 2 September 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

My little white 3-D printed personal robotic spider dress marks out, establishes and defends my personal animatronic arachnidal boundaries

mapping the perimeters and suggesting the dangers that lie in store for those who attempt to cross

over the border into my personal space -- the zones of prohibition are protected

by the nine retractable tentacular plates in

the assistive adaptive autonomous environment of

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress, which,

guided by emotional monitoring, body temperature readout, brain scan

and hormonal disturbance early warning

systems implanted, sewn on my CNC mill, and soldered into chips,

snap out to capture any intruder in the moment

of transgression, stun, disarm and instantly kill

and so now I can couple my body with an EEG

to protect me from

........................YOU

I can record my respiration

I can calibrate each beat of my heart

I can make a 3-D holographic simulation

I can continually cartographically display my biosignals and store them in the computer brain of

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

where all the data gets transferred so that I can create an interface

allowing me to be here in Silicon Valley in my little white badass

personal robotic animatronic spider dress

...................................................while YOU

remain always on the other side of the border maintained and guarded with vigilance by

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

I can use my emotions

as a weapon

as a tool

as a barrier

as a menu for methods of torture

I wouldn't get caught dead without my little white 3-D printed

personal robotic spider dress

...................................and if YOU

come too close

the penetration

of my personal space

will be immediately detected and

set off my personal alarm system

and my personal robotic spider dress will automatically extend its tentacular plates toward

..............................YOU

but don't think you're the first capture

but don't think you're the first to be consumed by

My Personal Robotic Spider Dress

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht modeled at Las Vegas International Computer Electronics Show: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht (close-up detail): photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht (detail showing retractable "protection" plates, r.): photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

Robotic Spider Dress by Anouk Wipprecht, seen metamorphosing for the industry: photo via Intel iQ, 2015

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