Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe
From Ireland to Bulgaria, from Finland to Spain, detention camps for foreigners have mushroomed across the European Union. They have emerged mostly over the past decade, as the region has grown less and less welcoming to migrants.
Scapegoating migrants
When an economy works properly, migrants create work, and pay taxes, and generate demand for goods and services.
When an economy fails to deliver jobs and services migrants are blamed for that.
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Record immigration to Sweden in 2006
Immigration to Sweden in 2006 reached its highest level since records began. At the same time emigration also soared to a level not seen in over 100 years, according to official figures published by Statistics Sweden.
How to enter Europe by legal means
Possibilities for citizens of developing countries to enter Europe by legal means are very restricted. Regulations are changing very quickly, so we can do no more than outline some options.
Gangs profit from smuggling of illegal immigrants into Europe
The nearly 400 migrants who thought they were sailing to Europe from the West African nation of Guinea ended up ill, stranded and broke in Mauritania. Not that the gang smuggling them much cared. By the time the engines on the migrants' rust-eaten vessel, Marine I, failed far from European shores, the gang had long since cleared hundreds of thousands of euros in cash.
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Secret Paradise
Some call it a secret, some call it a paradise, but we call it a surprise. Europe has many faces. Some of them are well known and others are not. With our project "Surprising Europe" we want to paint a clear picture of the reality of life in Europe in order to inform and prepare Africans who are thinking of migrating to Europe.
EU started 'migratory flux control' in Mali
The European Commission has opened an employment office in Bamako (Mali). The pilot project is the first of a planned network of job centres in Africa aimed at matching the potential supply of migrant manpower with demand for low-skill labour in the EU member states. Economic sectors targeted in the recruitment include construction, agriculture, public works and tourism.
"If in your house there is fire, you will jump; you won't think how high the building is. The risk is big, but you take it in order to save your life,"
Christoph (Cote d'Ivoire)
The Myth Of Invasion
Desperate Africans fleeing poverty and war, trying to enter the European ‘El Dorado’ in ships barely staying afloat. The migrants are commonly depicted as victims of “merciless” traffickers and smugglers. Although there has been an increase in West African migration to Europe, available evidence dispels most of these assumptions.
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