swissinfo.ch and agencies January 24, 2014 – 17:12 The number of asylum seekers in Switzerland fell by a quarter in 2013 compared with the previous year. The authorities received 21,465 […]
STORY SUMMARY Democratic and Republican U.S. senators called Tuesday for the country to take in more of the millions of people forced from their homes during Syria’s nearly three-year civil war. Only 31 Syrian refugees – out of an estimated 2.3 million – were allowed into the United States in […]
Several hundred people marching with music and banners filled the streets of Zurich on Saturday in a peaceful demonstration against the Swiss federal reception centres for asylum seekers. “Asylum is not a crime”, “Human rights instead of asylum” and “No camps anywhere” were among the slogans displayed on banners carried […]
December 15, 2013 – 20:01 Foreigners seeking long-term residency in Switzerland could be issued with a so-called language passport as part of the approval process if new legislation on integration […]
swissinfo.ch December 8, 2013 Bilateral accords between the European Union and Switzerland could be endangered if the Swiss people vote in favour of a controversial rightwing initiative to curb mass immigration, warns the European Union’s ambassador to Bern. In an interview with Swiss national television on Saturday evening, Richard Jones […]
German politicians claim Berlin’s new government coalition agreement will offer progress on asylum policies. In truth the policies solidify the status quo and ignore the most important issues. The migration-policy experts in Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) put on quite a show of being pugnacious and principled. Against the […]
WATCH VIDEO REPORT HERE: The Video seems to cover a Pakistani Ahmadi-Muslim Family in the Netherlands. France’s face veil ban is just the latest controversial law aimed at assimilating new immigrants in Europe. The Netherlands now requires Dutch fluency to become a citizen Read more: The Netherlands to Immigrants: Learn […]
Maine (PRWEB) November 22, 2013 Immigrants have played a crucial role in the historical narrative of America. The nation itself was founded by people who voyaged across the oceans in search of the proverbial American Dream, and who gave their all to realize it. Their story, the story of the […]
November 21, 2013 01:58 AM By Samya Kullab The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Monthly incomes for refugees is around $250 but average monthly expenditure is around $520, including rent, $225, […]
by Patricia Islas, swissinfo.ch November 14, 2013 – 11:00 The children of illegal immigrants in Switzerland attend school without realising that they’re not supposed to be living here. But when […]
See video report here: Published on Oct 17, 2013 About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as “infiltrators” by right-wing politicians and activists. […]
See video report here: Published on Oct 17, 2013 About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as “infiltrators” by right-wing politicians and activists. […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK I stopped to buy walnuts in Sidon last week from a sunburned man sitting on the pavement of the old souk. Like the walnuts – soft, almost creamy inside their iron-hard husks – he came from the Syrian town of Bloudan. In years gone […]
By Jürgen Dahlkamp and Maximilian Popp spiegel.de As Germany faces the highest number of refugee claimants in decades, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the European asylum system is broken. But […]
By Friederike Heine spiegel.de Friedland, a German refugee camp that has hosted displaced people since the end of World War II, welcomed its second group of Syrian refugees this week. […]
They come seeking refuge, but when asylum seekers cross into the European Union, they often find little compassion. In Greece, they are held in squalid detention camps, while in Italy […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent This is the story of how the Syrian war reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia and […]
global post: BRUSSELS, Belgium — More than 15,000 people have died in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea since the late 1990s after fleeing poverty, war and oppression in Africa, Asia and […]
STORY SUMMARY By Michael Young The Daily Star Lebanon President Michel Sleiman has recently placed the fate of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon at the top of his list of priorities when meeting with foreign officials. Lebanon, which hosts more than 1 million refugees, between those officially registered and those […]