Migration is the theme of a new mini-series, co-produced by French and German media. Under the title “Eden”, five different human stories across six episodes are woven together in an attempt to portray the extent that the current migration context has touched everyone’s lives in Europe.
Many Syrian refugees in Lebanon feel their situation is so dire that they are considering heading back to war-torn Syria. But it's a journey into the unknown, as Diana Hodali reports from Beirut.
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has confirmed that it has put decisions regarding asylum for many Syrians “on hold.” According to reports by a German media group, the postponement is due to a reassessment of the security situation in Syria.
The UN refugee agency's Vincent Cochetel has said that the distribution of refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia needs to be improved - in order to prevent a "concentration of traumatized people in the same space."
According to the European Union's statistics agency, more than 300,000 people were granted asylum within the bloc in 2018, a drop of nearly 40 percent compared to 2017. Almost 30 percent of beneficiaries were Syrians.
She fled warn-torn Syria in a wheelchair. Now, Nujeen Mustafa spoke at the UN on behalf of other disabled Syrians.
Only a tiny fraction of the Syrians who have fled as refugees to Germany have returned to their homeland using German government financial aid.
InfoMigrants met Hussein on his 18th birthday. Full of enthusiasm, the young man told us what brought him to Lesbos and his experience of being an unaccompanied minor on the Greek island.
Syrian Mohamad Albayat came to Germany at the end of 2015 aged just 23. A few years later he has begun studying for a master's degree in mathematics in the hope of building his future in his new country. Between determination and loneliness, he tells InfoMigrants about his life in Germany.
A Syrian refugee, who has been in trouble with German police multiple times, was sent back to Syria at the end of March. His return to Damascus has been fervently discussed by the Syrian community who see it as a repatriation despite a block on sending anyone back to Syria. The German authorities have denied it was a forced return.
Fifty-four Syrian refugees arrived on March 28 at Rome's Fiumicino airport from Lebanon, through humanitarian corridors sponsored by the Sant'Egidio Community, the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, and the Waldensian Round Table, in accord with the Italian Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry.
The German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) which represents German Universities in Germany published a poll in mid-March which suggested that more refugees than ever are finding out about, and signing up to, German universities. Raihana, a 30-year-old Afghan refugee in Germany, is one of them.