08. Februar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Growing number of refugees and asylum seekers falling into poverty in Britain“ · Kategorien: Großbritannien · Tags: ,

Independent | 05.02.2018

Exclusive: Thousands of vulnerable people destitute after being granted refugee protection

May Bulman

The number of refugees and asylum seekers living in food poverty has soared by 20 per cent in a year, as thousands are left destitute even after being granted protection in the UK, The Independent can reveal.

The Red Cross warns that a lack of government aid for asylum seekers and a sudden cut-off in support once they are granted refugee status is pushing a growing number of vulnerable people into destitution.

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06. Februar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Was gegen die These einer zunehmenden Migration von Afrika nach Europa spricht“ · Kategorien: Afrika, Europa, Lesetipps · Tags:

Makronom | 05.02.2018

Robert Kappel

Es ist oftmals zu hören, dass in den kommenden Jahren immer mehr Afrikaner nach Europa auswandern oder flüchten werden. Diese These wird mit Bevölkerungswachstum, der Migrationsbereitschaft der Jugend, mit hoher Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit, Terror, Klimawandel, politischer Fragilität und Bürgerkriegen begründet. Dabei handelt es zweifelsfrei um wichtige Faktoren, die man nicht bestreiten kann.

Allerdings sollte man berücksichtigen, dass es auch einige Gegentrends gibt. Diese liegen im Strukturwandel Afrikas mit seinen sich entwickelnden urbanen Zentren begründet, sowie in den Optionen, die China und andere Emerging Countries eröffnen, und sie zeigen sich an den Mobilitätsstrategien im Rahmen der globalisierten und der zirkulären Migration innerhalb Afrikas. Hier entwickeln sich neue Dynamiken.

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26. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „‘He was just a kid’: the boy who became a symbol of Spain’s migration crisis“ · Kategorien: Spanien · Tags: ,

The Guardian | 26.01.2018

Four-year-old Samuel Kabamba died a year ago trying to reach Europe with his mother

Among the immaculately tended, flower-bedecked graves of Barbate cemetery, one tomb stands out. Its occupant was not from the Andalusian town – he was not even Spanish – and his gravestone is decorated not with an image of Christ or the Virgin Mary but a picture of waves breaking on a sandy beach and a photograph of a little boy wrapped up in a scarf and coat.

“God has given and God has taken away,” reads the epitaph in French. “Blessed be God.”

Here, surrounded by the dead of a country he never knew, lies Samuel Kabamba, a four-year-old from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who died trying to reach Europe with his mother, Véronique Nzazi.

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21. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „On Paris’s Icy Streets, Migrants Wait for Word on Refuge“ · Kategorien: Frankreich, Schengen Migration, Social Mix · Tags:

The New York Times | 21.01.2018

By ERIN CLARE BROWN

PARIS — Jibran tells of escaping Taliban attackers who killed three of his brothers. He survived crossing into Europe in a refrigerated truck, he says, and persuaded the French authorities to grant him asylum. But the 25-year-old Afghan is still sleeping in a tent on the frozen streets of Paris.

He is one of hundreds of homeless migrants who sleep in frigid encampments under bridges, in parks and near bustling nightclubs in the French capital, according to observations made by The New York Times over three nights.

Housing and integrating an influx of migrants is a chronic problem in Paris and many other European cities.

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21. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Migrants stuck in Serbia want to move on“ · Kategorien: Balkanroute, Deutschland, Schengen Migration, Serbien · Tags:

Reuters | 19.01.2018

BELGRADE (Reuters) – After traversing several countries en route to the rich West, Najibullah, a former policeman from the Afghan town of Kholm, his pregnant wife and four children, got stuck in Serbia.

Now they spend days of relative normalcy in a drab refugee camp in Krnjaca, an industrial area on the outskirts of the Serbian capital Belgrade, hoping they will ultimately move to Germany where 30-year-old Najibullah has relatives.

If they get their wish, they would join more than a million other migrants who have arrived in Germany since 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel offered sanctuary to those fleeing war and poverty.

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18. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Hungary seeks to punish those who aid illegal migration“ · Kategorien: Balkanroute, Schengen Migration, Ungarn · Tags: ,

The Washington Post | 17.01.2018

By Pablo Gorondi | AP

BUDAPEST, Hungary — A new set of laws would tax and possibly sanction Hungarian groups assisting illegal migration which receive foreign funding, Hungary’s government said Wednesday.

Such groups would have to register with the courts and, if they get more than half of their funds from foreign sources, pay a 25-percent tax on the funds received from abroad, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter said. Groups failing to register, and which authorities consider to be adding illegal migrants, could be fined.

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16. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „‚England seemed so close‘: refugee, 15, crushed to death by Calais lorry“ · Kategorien: Frankreich, Großbritannien, Schengen Migration · Tags: ,

The Guardian | 16.01.2018

Migrants are still travelling to the Channel port, enduring desperate living conditions and dying on the roads, trying to get to Britain

by Amelia Gentleman

A few hours before his death, Abdullah Dilsouz was playing cricket with other child refugees in the wasteland behind the port of Calais. Friends said he was excited to be nearing the end of a long journey from Afghanistan, and optimistic that he would soon be able to join his brother in London.

But the 15-year-old was run over by a refrigeration truck on 22 December – one of three asylum-seekers to be killed on the roads outside the port in the past month. A fourth has been seriously injured and remains in a coma in hospital and on Sunday night an Iraqi refugee had his legs severed by a train near Dunkirk.

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16. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „A new refugee flow to Europe: Turkish refugees“ · Kategorien: Griechenland, Türkei · Tags:

Al-Monitor | 12.01.2018

Yagmur Ekim Cay

This past November, three bodies were found washed ashore the Greek island of Lesbos. They were later identified as a Turkish husband and wife, Huseyin and Nur Maden, and one of their three children. The Madens were teachers in Turkey, but they were among the 150,000 civil servants dismissed from their jobs after the failed coup in July 2016. Some of those dismissed tried to flee to Greece to avoid arrest or find work. More than 12,000 Turks applied for asylum in Europe for the first time in 2017, according to Eurostat. This figure is triple what it was the year preceding the failed coup and is the highest it has been in the past decade.

Since July 2016, Turkish authorities have arrested over 50,000 people, including journalists and intellectuals. Around 150,000 Turks have both had their passports revoked and lost their jobs as police officers, soldiers, teachers and public servants. For some, the solution was to leave Turkey and find work in another country, where they could have a better life and avoid prosecution.

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15. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „How Italy’s far right exploits the migration crisis“ · Kategorien: Italien, Schengen Migration, Social Mix · Tags: ,

Al Jazeera | 15.01.2018

by Patrick Strickland

On a pale January afternoon, 17-year-old Ali* sits around a fading fire at a makeshift refugee transit centre.

Established in 2015, Baobab Experience is now located in a car park surrounded by deserted buildings in the Italian capital. More than 20 evictions have forced the centre to move several times.

When Ali decided to quit Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, for Europe, he was 15 years old. His hopes to study and find work, however, were put on hold when he was trapped in Libya for two years.

With the sun dipping below the horizon, Ali recalls finally arriving on Italy’s southern shores a month ago.

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15. Januar 2018 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Tunesien: Sprunghafter Anstieg der Migranten seit Herbst 2017“ · Kategorien: Tunesien · Tags: , ,

Telepolis | 15.01.2018

Das Land, das dafür gerühmt wird, dass die Proteste 2011 halbwegs erfolgreich waren, ist wirtschaftlich und politisch überhaupt nicht weitergekommen

Thomas Pany

Tunesien taucht auch im Sondierungspapier von CDU, CSU und SPD auf. Zusammen mit Algerien und Marokko soll es zusammen mit weiteren Staaten mit einer „regelmäßigen Anerkennungsquote unter 5 Prozent“ zu sicheren Herkunftsstaaten bestimmt werden.

Geht es nach einem Bericht der SZ vom Wochenende, so liegt die „bereinigte Schutzquote“ um einiges über den 5 Prozent. Gemeint ist damit die Quote der Anerkennung, nachdem Gerichte über Einsprüche zum Bamf-Entscheid zum Asylantrag geurteilt haben.

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