Elendsviertel Sidi Moumen: „Ich wollte aus Marokko weg“

09. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Elendsviertel Sidi Moumen: „Ich wollte aus Marokko weg“ · Kategorien: Marokko · Tags:

Quelle: taz | 08.01.2017

Über Sidi Moumen wurde nach Silvester 2015 viel geredet. Besuch bei einem Mann, der in Deutschland sein Glück suchte – und nun zurück ist.

Die Jungs, sagt Boubker Mazoz, „die Jungs haben hier kaum Perspektiven.“ Er leitet das Kulturzentrum in Sidi Moumen, einem Stadtteil von Casablanca, Marokko. „Die meisten von ihnen träumen von Deutschland“, erzählt er.

Ein Traum, der für viele junge Männer seit der Kölner Silvesternacht vor einem Jahr in weite Ferne gerückt ist. Seitdem kennt man Sidi Moumen auch in Deutschland, das Viertel hat dort für Schlagzeilen gesorgt. Negative Schlagzeilen: Laut Polizeiberichten kamen viele der mutmaßlichen Täter, die am Kölner Hauptbahnhof Frauen belästigt haben, aus diesem Viertel, das auch in Marokko längst traurige Berühmtheit erreicht hat. Es gilt als Hochburg von Kriminellen, Drogenhändlern und Islamisten.

Begründet wurde der schlechte Ruf spätestens im Mai 2003 – damals war bekannt geworden, dass die Drahtzieher jener islamistisch motivierten Selbstmordanschäge, bei denen vierzig Menschen um ihr Leben kamen und über einhundert verletzt wurden, aus Sidi Moumen stammten.

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„Dreaming of Europe: the last young man left in a Senegalese village“

09. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Dreaming of Europe: the last young man left in a Senegalese village“ · Kategorien: Afrika · Tags:

Quelle: The Guardian | 09.01.2017

Life is lonely and humiliating for Goundo Wandianga, 21, whose friends and twin brother have all gone to seek their fortunes

Goundo Wandianga is the only young man left in his village. Or at least, that’s what it feels like.

He spends his days lounging under mango trees in his family’s small village in Casamance, the southern region of Senegal, playing on his phone, doing odd jobs for his mother, and dreaming about Europe.

Everyone else carries on as normal in Sare Bakary, his village. Old men sit on benches cracking peanuts and chatting about cattle, the old days, and past attempts to get to Europe. Their wives and daughters work constantly, watering the garden, cooking lunch, and sweeping up the peanut shells, while children dart in and out between the huts.

But in Sare Bakary, there is no group of surly male adolescents, or strapping young men in their 20s. There is just Goundo.

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Migranti, Minniti vuole “raddoppiare le espulsioni”. Ma mancano gli accordi: “E l’intesa con la Libia sarebbe inapplicabile”

09. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Migranti, Minniti vuole “raddoppiare le espulsioni”. Ma mancano gli accordi: “E l’intesa con la Libia sarebbe inapplicabile” · Kategorien: Italien, Libyen · Tags:

Quelle: Il Fatto Quotidiano | 07.01.2017

L’Italia può vantare accordi di riammissione con Marocco, Algeria, Egitto e Tunisia. Ma da questi 4 Paesi arriva una parte minima dei migranti: secondo l’Unhcr, nel 2016 l’82% dei barconi arrivati sulla Penisola proveniva dalle coste libiche. Il problema è che il governo Al Sarraj, riconosciuto dall’Occidente, non controlla che una porzione limitata del territorio: „Un accordo si può pure fare – spiega Francesco Cherubini, docente di Diritto dell’Unione Europea alla Luiss – ma è inapplicabile“

di Gianni Rosini

Raddoppiare le espulsioni degli immigrati irregolari dalle attuali 5mila alle 10mila unità, si legge nella circolare di due pagine che a fine anno il ministero dell’Interno ha inviato a tutte le prefetture. Per farlo servono accordi con gli Stati di provenienza o di transito. Per questo nei prossimi giorni il ministro dell’Interno Marco Minniti volerà a Tunisi e Tripoli: “Dobbiamo affrontare il problema lì – ha detto il 5 gennaio – costruire un sistema di cooperazione che funzioni in Libia, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia”. “Per rimpatriare gli irregolari nei propri Paesi – spiega a IlFattoQuotidiano.it Francesco Cherubini, docente di Diritto dell’Unione Europea all’Università Luiss “Guido Carli” – sono necessarie intese con ogni singolo Stato ed essere riusciti a identificare la nazionalità del soggetto. Al contrario, il rimpatrio è possibile solo verso l’ultimo Paese di transito prima dell’entrata nell’Ue. Ma un accordo sui rimpatri con la Libia – dalla quale è passato l’82% dei migranti arrivati in Italia nel 2016 – è quasi impossibile o, comunque, inapplicabile”.

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„Aiutò migranti al confine con Mentone, assolto insegnante francese“

07. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Aiutò migranti al confine con Mentone, assolto insegnante francese“ · Kategorien: Frankreich, Italien · Tags: ,

Quelle: La Stampa | 06.01.2017

Sentenza di assoluzione in Francia per Pierre-Alain Mannoni, un insegnante ricercatore di 45 anni, finito alla sbarra a Nizza per aver aiutato alcuni migranti in cammino dall’Italia alla Francia. Lo scorso ottobre, Mannoni era stato fermato dalla polizia transalpina al pedaggio di Mentone, tra Ventimiglia e Nizza, con tre eritrei a bordo, incluso una minorenne. La procura aveva chiesto una condanna a 6 mesi ma il giudice ha deciso diversamente. Uscendo dal tribunale questa mattina l’insegnante ha mimato il segno della vittoria.

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„184 migrants already rescued at sea off Libyan coast in 2017: IOM Libya“

07. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „184 migrants already rescued at sea off Libyan coast in 2017: IOM Libya“ · Kategorien: Libyen, Mittelmeerroute · Tags:

Quelle: Libya Herald | 06.01.2017

The International Organization for Migration Libya (IOM) has reported that already, 184 migrants have been rescued at sea off the Libyan coast. The migrants were rescued in two separate operations. In 2016 a total of 18,904 were rescued off the Libyan coast.

Between 17 December 2016 and 6 January 2017 a total of 366 were rescued and 10 bodies were retrieved at sea.

Off the western city of Zawia, 62 were rescued on 23 December (56 men and 6 women) and five bodies were retrieved from sea.

A total of 65 were rescued off the capital Tripoli (60 men and 5 women) and five bodies were retrieved on 4 January this year.

Meanwhile, 120 were rescued off Khoms (71 men and 49 women) on 22 December and another 119 (87 men, 26 women and 6 children) were rescued on 2 January this year.

In 2016, there were a total of 181,436 migrant arrivals by sea recorded in Italy from the Libyan coast and a total of 4,576 deaths at sea.

„Kälte in Bulgarien: Flüchtlinge nahe türkischer Grenze erfroren“

07. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Kälte in Bulgarien: Flüchtlinge nahe türkischer Grenze erfroren“ · Kategorien: Bulgarien · Tags: ,

Quelle: Spiegel Online | 07.01.2017

In Bulgarien ist das strenge Winterwetter zwei Flüchtlingen zum Verhängnis geworden: Sie erfroren an der Grenze zur Türkei.

An der bulgarisch-türkischen Grenze sind erneut zwei Flüchtlinge erfroren. In einem Wald im verschneiten Gebirgsmassiv Strandzha im Südosten Bulgariens fanden Dorfbewohner die Leichen von zwei Irakern, wie die Polizei in der Regionalhauptstadt Burgas mitteilte. Die beiden Männer seien 28 und 35 Jahre alt gewesen. Am Montag war in der gleichen Gegend eine somalische Frau tot aufgefunden worden.

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„Stranded and sick, refugees endure harsh Serbian winter“

07. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Stranded and sick, refugees endure harsh Serbian winter“ · Kategorien: Balkanroute, Bulgarien, Serbien · Tags:

Quelle: Al Jazeera | 06.01.2017

Europe’s border closures have left thousands of refugees in the Balkans

by Patrick Strickland

Residents of an impromptu camp say many are battling illnesses as winter sets in [Lazara Marinkovic/Al Jazeera]

Belgrade, Serbia – Patches of ice dot a grassless yard where a group of refugees and migrants heat a barrel of water on a campfire to bathe and handwash their clothes on a dimming afternoon in early January.

A teenager from Pakistan sits on his haunches and shivers as he waits for his friend to pour a bowl of hot water down his back, wearing only a pair of undershorts.

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„Global migration’s impact and opportunity“

06. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Global migration’s impact and opportunity“ · Kategorien: Lesetipps · Tags:

Quelle: McKinsey & Company | November 2016

Migration has become a flashpoint for debate in many countries. But McKinsey Global Institute research finds that it generates significant economic benefits and more effective integration of immigrants could increase those benefits.

Migration is a key feature of our increasingly interconnected world. It has also become a flashpoint for debate in many countries, which underscores the importance of understanding the patterns of global migration and the economic impact that is created when people move across the world’s borders. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), People on the move: Global migration’s impact and opportunity, aims to fill this need.

Refugees might be the face of migration in the media, but 90 percent of the world’s 247 million migrants have moved across borders voluntarily, usually for economic reasons. Voluntary migration flows are typically gradual, placing less stress on logistics and on the social fabric of destination countries than refugee flows. Most voluntary migrants are working-age adults, a characteristic that helps raise the share of the population that is economically active in destination countries.

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„Blackwater founder returns to save Europe from refugees“

06. Januar 2017 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Blackwater founder returns to save Europe from refugees“ · Kategorien: Europa, Libyen · Tags:

Middle East Eye | 05.01.2017

Erik Prince, the former CEO of the firm responsible for opening fire on Iraqi civilians, has the militarised solution to Europe’s migrant problem

Belen Fernandez

Starting the new year off with a bang, the Financial Times has just published a dispatch by Erik Prince, notorious founder and former CEO of the private security contracting firm Blackwater, the outfit responsible for projects such as the 2007 Nisour Square massacre of Iraqi children and other civilians.

The company has undergone a series of rebranding efforts over the years as an apparent means of distancing itself from overtly toxic connotations.

Prince’s Financial Times bio discreetly identifies him as simply “a former US Navy SEAL [and] executive chairman of Frontier Services Group,” a Hong Kong-headquartered entity.

According to its website, FSG offers “security and logistics services in frontier markets”.

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Migranti, a Cona l’ennesimo naufragio del sistema Italia

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Quelle: Nuovi Desaparecidos | 05.01.2017

di Emilio Drudi

La protesta esplosa nel centro accoglienza di Cona, dopo la morte di una giovane ivoriana, ha di nuovo scoperchiato la realtà del “sistema Italia” per i migranti. “Di nuovo” perché la situazione era ormai fin troppo chiara, specie dopo quanto è emerso con Mafia Capitale, l’indagine promossa dalla Procura di Roma che ha investito diverse strutture di ospitalità romane e si è poi estesa a casi analoghi in altre parti del Paese, incluso il Cara di Mineo, in Sicilia, il più grande d’Europa, dando origine anche a una commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta. Prima ancora di Mafia Capitale, anzi, a mettere sotto accusa il sistema erano stati tutta una serie di dossier roventi presentati da Ong come Medici per i Diritti Umani, Amnesty, Habeshia, l’Asgi, Lasciatecientrare. Roventi ma rimasti inascoltati. Così come, a ben vedere, è stata di fatto “dimenticata”, dalle istituzioni e dalla politica, anche la stessa Mafia Capitale: altrimenti non si sarebbe arrivati a una vicenda come quella di Cona.

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