The astounding rescue of a child dangling from a Paris balcony has caught the imagination of the world. Mamoudou Gassama – a young Malian migrant – met the French president and has been told he’ll have his citizenship fast-tracked. Some have accused France’s politicians of opportunism and hypocrisy – but most just want to pay their tribute to a true hero.
4 Escape to Europe: The migrants’ story – BBC Newsnight
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6 Syrian Refugee Crisis – The hardest part of their journey to Europe.
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7 Surviving One of the Deadliest Routes to Europe: Refugees at Sea
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8 Saved at Sea : Rescuing Migrants in the Mediterranean – the fifth estate
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9 Desperate Journey: Europe’s Refugee Crisis
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13 The Ethiopian migrants who make the desperate journey to Saudi Arabia via Yemen
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16 Life As An Illegal Immigrant in Greece
16 apr. 2014
Greece has always been a gateway for immigrants searching for what they assumed would be a better life in Europe. But many of those who’ve crossed illegally into Greece have found that they have traded one bad situation for another. Refugees from war-torn countries like Syria and Afghanistan are finding themselves stuck in a country that is not only battling an economic crisis but is witnessing a rise in anti-immigrant violence, exemplified by the a nationalist political party known as the Golden Dawn.
VICE News’ Alex Miller travelled from Athens to the western port of Patras to find out what it is like to be trapped in a country you never wanted to be in in the first place.
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17 Refugees stranded in Greece | DW Documentary
11 mei 2019
The refugee camps in Greece are hopelessly overcrowded. Many refugees are sick and traumatized and government agencies overtaxed. The situation is particularly difficult for unaccompanied minors. The number of suicides is increasing.
A lack of hygiene, violence, sexual harassment, no prospects: these are the conditions under which three times as many refugees as originally planned live in the camp on Samos. And, even though the Balkan route is closed, new refugees are still coming every day. They cannot leave the island. The number of suicides is rising. The UNHCR says asylum applications should be examined more quickly and unaccompanied, underage refugees taken to the mainland to rejoin their families as soon as possible. Aid workers say they have never experienced conditions like the ones in the Greek refugee camps during their previous missions around the world. Only private aid organizations can bring hope. Some young people manage to escape to Athens. They hope to be able to leave Greece more easily from there. But many of them remain stuck in the city, begging – and in some cases, even resorting to prostitution to get by.
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18 The Harrowing Personal Stories of Syrian Refugees, in Their Own Words
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20 Children Fleeing Syria Are Dying In Lebanon’s Refugee Camps
23 aug. 2017
21 This Is Home: Children Document Life in Largest Syrian Refugee Camp
26 sep. 2016
22 Syrian Refugee Camps Becoming Established Cities
23 jun. 2014
Home away from home: The tragic story of the Jordan/Syria border crisis.
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The civil war in Syria has created the world’s worst refugee crisis in twenty years. 2.8 million people have fled their homeland to live in foreign camps, such as the UNHCR camp in northern Jordan.
“I always heard the word refugee but I never imagined I would be one”, says Samar Hariri, a grieving school teacher and mother of five. Samar, her husband and their children are just a handful of the 100,000 displaced Syrians who flocked to Camp Zaatari – just a few kilometres from the border with Syria – and who now call it home. Two years ago, collections of tents sat incongruously in the middle of this barren desert. Now a refugee city with a distinctive heart and soul of its own, a community of resilient, hopeful people looks set to grow ever more established. “You ask yourself, why is this happening to me? A person who always had dignity now has none”. Once a prosperous, middle class family man, Abu Diaa now focuses on transforming their camp into something resembling home: an essential coping mechanism for enduring life in a refugee camp. It is an impulse Kilian Kleinschmidt, head of Zaatari Camp, understands: “When you lose everything… your home, your belongings, you have lost your identity. Everything has gone.” In this deeply moving report we witness the stoicism of a family rebuilding themselves among thousands of others.
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23 World’s largest Syrian refugee camp has developed its own economy
18 jun. 2016
24 The dangerous boat ride to Greece through the eyes of a Syrian refugee girl | UNICEF
5 nov. 2015
26 Syrian Children – Refugee Camp Niroz | UNICEF
21 aug. 2013
Syrian Children in Refugee Camps.
Produced by Jezza Neumann for Your Worldview, a global online platform showcasing short films from around the world.
For its new “HOME” season, Neumann produced several short films about Syrian children in the Domiz refugee camp in Kurdistan, Iraq.
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25 Lebanon: A tiny computer lets Syrian refugees learn | UNICEF
20 nov. 2014
More than three years into the Syrian crisis, many of the 3 million displaced children haven’t returned to school. But UNICEF innovation specialist James Cranwell-Ward saw a solution in a small low-cost technology – a computer hard drive the size of a credit card called the Raspberry Pi.
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29 We Walk Together: a Syrian refugee family’s journey to the heart of Europe
10 sep. 2015
30 The Long Journey – A Syrian Family’s Europe Passage
29 dec. 2015
31 Syria’s women refugees fear sham marriages and rape
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36 Images of the refugee crisis | DW Documentary
4 sep. 2020
Images from the refugee crisis in 2015 are etched in our collective memory. A dead child on the beach. A Syrian who talks the German chancellor into joining in a selfie. A frightened boy being torn from a bus surrounded by a raging mob.
These snapshots represent dramatic moments from the time when nearly a million refugees entered Germany in the summer of 2015. In this documentary, the authors Bamdad Esmaili and Matthias Fuchs go in search of the stories behind the pictures. What really happened back then? Where are the people who were in them now? And how did their lives unfold after the summer when German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared in front of the television cameras to say, “We’ll manage this”?
Anas Modamani lives and studies in Berlin. In 2015, he photographed himself and the Chancellor together. “Through that ‘selfie.’ I found friends and learned the language,” he says. But the image didn’t just bring him good fortune. His likeness went viral and he was labelled a terrorist. Modamani took Facebook to court. The filmmakers also encounter volunteers from Munich’s main train station who handed out teddy bears back then. And they meet perfectly integrated refugees who love Bavarian food as well as others who have barely learned German even after five years. Again and again, Esmaili and Fuchs ask, “‘We’ll manage it.’ But did we really?” They also speak with the father and aunt of two-year-old Alan Kurdi, who drowned near the Turkish town of Bodrum.
Five years after the refugee crisis, it seems the world has changed yet somehow still remains the same. The situation on the border between Turkey and Greece has not eased and Europe still doesn’t have any workable solutions to the problem of how to process and distribute new refugees. Even now, in 2020, thousands of people are still hoping to make their way to Europe.
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37 Moria – the EU’s failed refugee policy | DW Documentary
31 jan. 2021
The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has become a symbol of the failure of EU Policy. Dramatic images of a fire at the camp in September 2020 have put pressure on the EU Commission to draft a new refugee agreement.
The flaws of EU refugee policy have been known for years: asylum applications take far too long to process, only some member states accept approved refugees, and many asylum seekers who’ve been turned down can’t be sent back to their countries of origin. But who is actually responsible for the situation in Moria? Is it the EU, or individual member states that refuse to compromise? And what are the chances of finding a solution, after years of deadlock?
The makers of this documentary tracked the lives of refugees on Lesbos for a year. Living conditions in the Moria camp have long been unacceptable. Some German cities, including Bielefeld, offered help immediately after the fire. Should the camp take in new refugees? The film features interviews with supporters and critics of this policy, and with former refugees who lived at the camp.
The reporters also talked to EU officials, and politicians and experts from various countries to try to find out why this situation has dragged on for so long. They also discuss proposals for a more equitable distribution of future refugees among EU member states. For years, those countries have insisted that asylum applications be examined at their borders. That concept quite obviously failed in Moria.
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38 Libya’s refugee camps | DW Documentary
5 feb. 2021
Libyan refugee camps are hell on earth for many. That’s why people often accept deadly risks and attempt to cross the approximately 500 kilometers of Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Sicily – on overcrowded boats with little to protect them.
The refugee route across the Mediterranean has become a mass grave, as more and more migrants risk their lives by attempting to reach Europe. The charities “SOS MEDITERRANEE” and “Médecins Sans Frontières” have chartered the “Ocean Viking” – a rescue ship that has been cruising the Mediterranean since the end of 2019. Journalists Etienne Huver and Jean-Baptiste Renaud accompanied the ship on its mission. The crew has the task of rescuing as many people as possible from the water. They are always on the lookout for small boats that are unsuitable for the long journey to Europe. The results are dramatic images of rescue operations at sea, as well as the stories of refugees, most of whom have set out from Libya. There, refugees are often crammed into camps in inhumane conditions. There are instances of rape by police, as well as beatings and torture. The camera team gained access to one of these camps. Despite being shown the camp’s positive side by the man who runs it, the team also used a hidden camera to film in unauthorized areas.
The documentary depicts the inhumanity of Libya’s refugee camps and the fates of those who try to escape, as well as the efforts of “Ocean Viking” crew members to save lives.
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