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The Migration Newsdesk - 11 January 2016
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Migrants and refugees at the Serbian-Hungarian border in Horgos. © Francesco
Malavolta 2015 Is the Schengen Dream of Europe Without Borders Becoming a Thing
of the Past? With Sweden and Denmark reintroducing border controls in a new
Europe of razor-wire fences, fear of mass immigration and homegrown terror,
obituaries are already being written for the European Union (EU)’s ID-free
travel zone, writes Ian Traynor of the Guardian, reporting from the Luxembourg
village where the Schengen agreement was conceived in 1985. Ministers from
France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg met in Schengen in
1985 to launch a bold experiment in border-free travel. It would allow people
(and cars and lorries with green dot stickers on their windshields) to roam the
five countries without passport controls. The ID-free travel zone and “Schengen
visa” became fully fledged in 1995 and kept growing. It now embraces 26 EU
countries from Iceland to Greece. But across the EU the proponents of closed
national societies are gaining ground against those favoring liberal, open
regimes. Read on |
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The informal migrant and refugee settlement in the port city of Calais, France
at night. © IOM/Amanda Nero 2015 The Most Shocking Thing about Calais is that
It’s Not Even Too Big to Solve The French are responsible for dreadful migrant
camps (in Calais and Dunkirk in northern France). But the UK's refusal to
engage makes things worse, writes UK Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper MP in
the Guardian. Calais, she notes, is only a small corner of the European refugee
crisis, but it is a bleak one. Of the 1 million people arriving in Europe last
year, just 5,000 have ended up in the Jungle in Calais, 3,000 more on a
wasteland at Dunkirk – the equivalent of just 0.006% of the combined French and
British populations. In contrast 5,000 people arrive on the Greek island of
Lesbos every day. In Lebanon a quarter of the population is made up of
refugees. That is partly what makes Calais so troubling: it isn’t too big to
solve. Yet no one has a proper plan to sort it out. Not the French or British
governments, the UN or the big aid agencies. Read on |
| Quote of the day
| "Big talk is all very well, but is no substitute for embracing real people,
thousands of whom are languishing in camps, hoping to catch someone's eye." –
Liz O'Donnell, Irish Independent. More here. |
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Abraham: "I run a lot. Why do I run that much? To remind myself that I’ve done
a long journey and yet, I’m still alive."
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The English edition of the Forced Migration Review (FMR) 51 on ‘Destination:
Europe’ is now available online. The issue contains articles written by IOM
Director General William Lacy Swing and other IOM contributors. |
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| Migration in the News
- Sofia News Agency and Newsweek reported that, according to IOM, 46
migrants and refugees were reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean in the
first six days of 2016.
- UN News Centre reported that the UN Central Emergency Response Fund
announced a USD 7 million grant, the 2nd in five months, to help tens of
thousands of Chadians forced to flee Nigeria by the Boko Haram insurgency.
- Sputnik reported that six migrants have been killed, three drowned and
some 19 others hospitalized after trying to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta
by sea, according to the Moroccan Association for the Integration of
Immigrants.
- Haberler reported that at least eight people were killed and 42 others
injured when a bus carrying undocumented refugees and migrants overturned in
the western Turkish province of Balıkesir.
- Irish Independent reported that despite the harsh winter and increased
policing in Turkey, there is no sign of any decline in the flow of desperate
migrants risking their lives to find safety in Europe.
- New York’s Narratively reported that in Moldova over 250,000 children are
growing up with one or both parents living abroad, according to the Child
Rights Information Center in Chisinau (CRIC).
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| Trending on the Internet
- Al Jazeera reported that thousands of Syrian children are dropping out of
school and working in Turkey’s informal economy.
- Forbes reported that according to some experts, accepting refugees – the
young workers of the future – is a good investment, as well as a humanitarian
act.
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