Refugees



Terminology
uAsylum seeker
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uMigrant
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uRefugee

Reasons
uMilitary intervention?
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uInstability not because of the intervention?
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uIslam?

Why now?
uthe ongoing violence
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uthe worsening of conditions
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uthe continued lack of opportunities
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ugeopolitical changes

Why This Crisis Is So Difficult to Tackle
ufocusing on the “care and maintenance” of refugee populations and with little focus on long-term,
sustainable solutions
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uno sharing with hosting countries in conflict regions
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uterritorially based national asylum systems

Main Routes
uCentral Mediterranean Route (Italy and Malta)
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uEastern Mediterranean Route (Greece/Aegean Sea)
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uWestern Balkans (Hungary)

Main Migratory Routes
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http://www.businessinsider.com/animated-map-migrant-refugee-crisis-syria-2015-9

European migrant crisis or
European refugee crisis
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uThe Schengen Agreement = internal Schengen borders are abolished.
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uDublin regulation – who is responsible to examine an assylum
                                 application?

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uGermany
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uSweden                   2/3 of EU´s                       Syria
u                       =  asylum applications     =     Afghanistan   > half of total
uHungary                                                            Iraq
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uAustria
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u3,771 people were registred as having died at sea - 2015

Domino Effect of Border Closures
u2012 Greek fence with Turkey
u2013 Bulgarian fence with Turkey
u20/8 2015 FYROM (Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia) closed border with Greece u16/9 2015
Hungary – closed borders with Serbia
                                  – closed borders with Croatia
u11/11 2015 Slovenian fence with Croatia
u18/11 2015 Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and FYROM – allow nationals from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq

Media
uhttp://blisty.cz/art/79011.html
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uRole of media in society:
-flow of information
-interpreter of information
-watchdog fiction

uTo mark International Migrants Day on Friday 18 December the Ethical Journalism Network has
published a report on media and the global migration and refugee crisis.
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uThe report, Moving Stories, reviews media coverage of migration in the European Union and in 14
countries across the globe and finds that journalists often fail to tell the full story and
routinely fall into propaganda traps laid by politicians.
uhttp://ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/assets/docs/127/166/e9f107f-311f4a6.pdf

Vocabulary…
uhttp://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/reports/migration-news
uhttps://www.online.muni.cz/veda-a-vyzkum/6912-media-odlidstuji-migranty-tvrdi-odbornici
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uMigrants in the newspapers: An influx of illegal, failed economic terrorists?

Social Media
uArab Spring
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uMigrants use social media  to plan, warn and prepare
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uJournalist use images, text and video to depict the plight of migrants
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uThe public use digital to galvanise support from citizens across Europe

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uhttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/macedonia-greek-border-faces-humanitarian-challenge-16022813
5807844.html
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uhttp://www.unhcr.org/pages/4ac9fdae6.html - Camps
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4ac9fdae6-page2.html
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uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfyaOAZ4pNI 24 min