BY SPUTNIK NEWS Africa is emptying. Thousands of people are fleeing their countries. In Italy, the debate is polarised between those who favour and oppose migration, but no one really dwells on the root causes of this phenomenon.
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BY SHABAIT | EDITORIAL In what appears as a knee-jerk reaction to public outrage following the recent CNN footage showing “migrants being sold as slaves” in Libya, the EU has floated the notion of a “humanitarian corridor” to relocate “stranded refugees to Europe”. In an apparent bid to elaborate the contours of this new policy, […]
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BY THE ECONOMIST Over the past three summers, tens of thousands of migrants piled into boats to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean. This summer, though, the sea was unusually empty. Since the European Union and Turkey struck a deal in 2016—in effect closing the eastern route to Greece—Italy has been the main destination […]
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Europe’s migrant crisis cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it. The politicization of Eritrean ‘economic migrants’ is one. By Virginia Hale, Migrants granted leave to remain in Switzerland on the basis that they risk death in their homelands are using welfare money to fund holidays back home, the Basler Zeitung […]
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By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald, Encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey, EU leaders are getting tough on African migrants too. A Brussels summit on Thursday will endorse pilot projects to pressure African governments via aid budgets to slow […]
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By AskaNews [*Google translation from Italian], “Why Europe and Italy are so surprised and speak of migratory problem, when it was the West that invite the Eritreans to leave their Country, attracting them with opportunities for study and work? If Europe stops automatically granting political asylum to Eritreans, the Eritreans will stop leaving.” This is […]
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By Tom Miles | for Reuters, More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. “This is three to four times as many migrants and refugees […]
Continue ReadingBy Madote, It sounds like every developing country in the world has economic migrant issues except for Eritrea. This is because when Eritrean economic migrants leave their country, they are falsely labeled as “refugees” or “asylum seekers“. This unfair politicization of migrants is kept in place to induce more Eritreans to leave their country by […]
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