InfoMigrants By DW Published on : 2021/04/13
Zero asylum seekers that is essentially the Danish government s ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe.
Aya Abo Daher had just graduated high school in the Danish town of Nyborg and was looking forward to celebrating the event with her friends at the end of June when she received an email from the Danish authorities that changed everything. The mail the Syrian student and her parents received stated that their residency permits would not be renewed. I was so sad, I felt so foreign, like everything in Denmark had been taken away from me, the 20-year old said. I sat down and just cried. At midnight, a friend drove me home to my family because I couldn t sleep.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/16
After ten years of conflict, half of the Syrian population has been forced to flee home, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has highlighted. 70% are living in poverty.
In a statement issued to mark the tenth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said that the crisis has produced more than 5.5 million refugees in the region while hundreds of thousands more are scattered across 130 countries.
70% of refugees are living in a condition of total poverty, without access to food, water and basic services. Half of Syrians were forced to flee their homes, the UN agency said on March 13.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/03/10
Many displaced Syrian children are unable to imagine a future in their homeland, according to a report by Save the Children. A large number also struggle with discrimination and access to education. I wish to live in any country other than Syria, where it s safe and there are schools and toys. It s not safe here, the sound of dogs scares me and the tent is not safe.
Lara, aged seven, was forced to flee her hometown Maarat al-Numan in northwestern Syria in early 2018. After being displaced several times, she now lives with her family in a camp in nearby Idlib. Lara is one of dozens of Syrian children quoted in a new report, titled Anywhere but Syria, on the effects of displacement on Syrian children.
Denmark has stripped 94 Syrian refugees of their residency permits after declaring that Damascus and the surrounding area were safe. The Scandinavian nation is the first EU country to say that law-abiding refugees can be sent back to Syria.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/01/18
According to a media report, the majority of Germany s 16 states favor deporting Syrian nationals deemed to pose a risk to security in Germany. While states with conservative-led interior ministries are in favor of deportations in individual cases, those led by Social Democrats and The Greens are against the contentious practice.
Germany is apparently moving closer to becoming the first EU country to deport people to war-torn Syria.
According to research by German newspaper
Welt am Sonntag ( World on Sunday ), nine German federal states are starting to prepare deportations of so-called Islamist Gefährder ( endangerer ).