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Month: October 2016

A naturalized Finn who returned to a “safe” country like Afghanistan and was killed last month

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Migrant Tales

The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) announced in May that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia are “safe” to return refugees who get their asylum applications rejected. Migrant Tales documented two deaths and one shooting of Iraqi asylum seekers that returned recently to Iraq. 

When asked about such cases, Migri tweets the following: “Good morning Marianne. Without confirmation we cannot comment on the fate of those [asylum seekers] that have been refused to stay [in Finland].”

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We would like to introduce Reza Hasani, a naturalized Finn originally from Afghanistan, who got shot and killed on September 19, or seven days after he got married in the capital Kabul.

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Tampereen perussuomalaisten puheenjohtaja on islamivastainen

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Ana María Gutiérrez Sorainen

Terhi Kiemunki, jonka vastaan on nostettu syytteet kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan nousi  viikonloppuna Tampereen perussuomalaisten johtoon yksimielisesti.

“Syyttäjän mukaan Kiemungin blogikirjoituksessa paneteltiin ja solvattiin islaminuskoisia. “

Nyt tuli selväksi Tampereen perussuomalaisten ajattelu. He antavat tukensa Kiemungin kaltaisille “ajattelijoille”. Samalla kun perussuomalaisten pamput kiemurtelevat tuoleissa kun heiltä kysytään miksi antavat tilaa rasisteille ja rasismille. Toimittajat eivät enää edes kysy, koska ilmeisesti rasismista on tullut normi tai kuten Jan Vapaavuori sanoi Uuden Suomen jutun mukaan, Suomi “puolipersuistui”.  “Suomessa media ja muut puolueet flirttailevat iloisesti perussuomalaisten kanssa, ja ikään kuin pyrkivät tekemään siitä tavanomaista puoluetta siinä missä muutkin. Tämä on poliittiselle kulttuurille turmiollista, Vapaavuori sanoi.”

Kiemunki työskentelee yhä yhden perussuomalaisen kansanedustajan avustajana. Mitä se kertoo Suomen eduskunnasta? Mitä sanovat Jan Vapaavuoren puoluekaverit hallituksesta ja Keskustalaiset ministerit ja kansanedustajat? Hallituspuolueet tekevät niin mielellään yhteistyötä Terhi Kiemungin kaltaisten suomalaisten kanssa.

Puolueiden “puolipersuistuiminen” ei kerro paljoakaan kaikista suomalaisista ja se näkyy ehkä puolueiden kannatuksessa tai/ja poliittisissa loikissa. http://www.savonsanomat.fi/kotimaa/T%C3%A4m%C3%A4n-vaalikauden-poliittiset-loikat-ovat-hy%C3%B6dytt%C3%A4neet-eniten-keskustaa/864184?pwbi=6994b542cc933650bc64f94176a449deSavon Sanomien mukaan kaikista puolueista perussuomalaiset ovat eniten menettäneet valtuutettuja. Perussuomalaisten valtuustopaikkojen määrä on vähentynyt kuntavaalien jälkeen 70:llä. Lähtijöitä on ollut ainakin 86 ja tulijoita ainakin 16.

Toive toisenlaisesta Suomesta kuin Kiemungin Suomi elää vahvasti monissa suomalaisissa.  Media voisi puhua perussuomalaisista oikeilla termeillä: äärioikeistoystäväälisenä- ja jopa rasismimyönteisenä puolueena.

Kirjoitus on ilmestynyt Uuden Suomen Puheenvuoron palveluksessa. Samassa paikassa, jossa ilmestyi kuvassa oleva kirjoitus Terhi Kiemungin pääsiäisnoitien kommenteista.

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Two Iraqi asylum seekers who returned to “safe” Iraq and were killed

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Migrant Tales

In May and much to the surprise of many, especially asylum seekers and concerned citizens, the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) announced that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia were safe to return asylum seekers.

Migrant Tales reported in September about Mohammed Khulbus Idnan’s return to “safe” Iraq after waiting for a year for his residence permit without luck. He returned to Baghdad to be at his mother’s side since she was going to die. He returned and was lucky: He got shot six times and survived.

Two other persons weren’t as lucky as Khulbus Idnan when they returned in summer to “safe” Iraq. Both of them were killed by bombs.

Hussein Ali Shawi Al-Frajas was twenty-nine years old when a bomb planted in his car detonated and ripped him in half from the waist down. We have pictures that show him inside the car that we won’t publish because they are so shocking.

Al-Frajas had been in Baghdad only three days before he was killed.

He left Finland after Migri had turned down his asylum application. He was a father of two.

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Hussein Ali Shawi Al-Frajas died in summer three days after his return to Baghdad from Oulu, Finland.

The second young man to die in summer is Ahmed Kadhim Ali Alsultani, who returned back to Baghdad because he missed his two children and wife. He had come to Finland in September and waited for months without luck for a decision from Migri.

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The Finnish Immigration Service, with the blessings of the government, aims to separate migrant parents from their children

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Migrant Tales

In August, the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri)  is reported to have given asylum reception center instructions that only their children can stay at the reception center if the parents have their asylum application turned down and won’t leave the country, according to MTV.

The Red Cross has already said that it won’t comply with Migri’s instructions because they breach the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Finland has ratified, and the association’s values to treat asylum seekers in a humane manner.

“We don’t want to worsen with our actions their vulnerability,” Red Cross legal advisor Jani Leino was quoted as saying.

Migrant Tales confirms that the Red Cross told asylum seekers at some camps that they won’t be abandoned by the association. “You will not be neglected or kicked out of the reception center,” an asylum seeker told us over the phone. “We are here to support you.”

While the Red Cross will not comply to Migri’s instructions, it would be interesting to see if private companies like Luona and Mehiläinen feel the same way about offering support and not abandoning those that they now serve.

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Read the full story here.

Finland’s government, which is one of the most hostile and anti-immigration seen in a long time, believes that the only way to deal with asylum seekers and migrants in Finland is to prohibit and pass inhumane laws like the tightening of family reunification guidelines.

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Case Villa Meri: Is the job of an asylum reception center to promote the well-being or suffering of those they serve?

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Migrant Tales

“Silence is beautiful” is a saying that most people in this country will appreciate but if the authorities don’t act and keep the public in suspense, that silence can turn into poison in a country like Finland where there are interest groups that make it their business to spread hatred, victimize and destroy the good name of migrants.

There are many examples we could cite of this “silence,” or inaction that encourages apathy.

Silence also fuels speculation, which in turn greases the wheels of those that spread racism, bigotry, and hatred.

Good examples of that  social gangrene are MV and Nykysuomi and others that rob, spin and spoonfeed to their readers their daily dose of racism with lies and exaggerations about migrants.

The existence of these types of publications, which have a readership and are supported by some politicians of anti-immigration parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*,  show that many are trying to cash in on xenophobia because such a social ill brings attention and power.

The Villa Meri asylum reception center, run by a private company that profits from people’s suffering, is at the center of a scandal fed by silence due to the rape of a 15-year-old.

 

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Read the full complaint here.

While not all asylum reception centers are managed poorly, there are others that do a good job. One important matter that a well-functioning center requires is good management that is available to the people they serve and offer shelter.

Continue reading “Case Villa Meri: Is the job of an asylum reception center to promote the well-being or suffering of those they serve?”

Discurso del escritor Jari Tervo en la apertura de la Feria del Libro de Helsinki

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Ana María Gutiérrez Sorainen

Jari Tervo es, sin duda alguna, uno de los escritores más conocidos y leidos de Finlandia. El 27 de octubre, Tervo fue el encargado de abrir la Feria del Libro de Helsinki y su discurso ha despertado interés público.

El discuros de Jari Tervo está cargado de humanismo, respeto a los derechos humanos y de una crítica contundente hacia la Unión Europea, el gobierno finlandés de Juha Sipilä y Turquía de Erdo?an. Debido a lo antes dicho, considero que este discurso merece ser traducido a todos los idiomas del planeta. El discurso ha sido publicado en la página web del evento.

El discurso es bastante extenso y al principio pensé traducir solamente unos párrafos, pero cuando leí todo el texto comprendí que era una pena no traducirlo todo. El discurso está en cursiva y entre paréntisis aparecen algunas de mis anotaciones:

Feria del Libro de Helsinki, 27 de octubre de 2016

Queridos amigos y queridas amigas. Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a la Feria del Libro de Helsinki.

Este otoño en Finlandia hay paz, excepto la brutal violencia nazista. Vivimos tales tiempos que una frase tan excéntrica es la fiel descripción de nuestra patria.

¿Por qué aquí en Finlandia ahora hay tanta paz? ¿Por qué a Finlandia no llegan decenas de miles de solicitantes de asilo, como en el otoño anterior?

Porque nosotros, los finlandeses, como miembros de la Unión Europea, le hemos delegado a Turquía la ayuda a las personas en dificultades. Nuestro subcontratista es un país gobernado dictatorialmente y cuyo jefe considera que el reciente golpe de estado es un regalo de Dios. El golpe ha hecho posible el endurecimiento de la disciplina, latigazos, el encarcelamiento de miles de personas y el afianzamiento de la autocracia en Turquía.

Esto hay que decirlo con mucho cuidado. Nosotros los finlandeses, en conjunto con los demás europeos, hemos confiado el cuidado de los derechos humanos a Turquía, país que nunca llegará a ser miembro de la Unión Europea precisamente porque no respeta los derechos humanos.

Es decir que nosotros compramos palmeras de Groelandia y hielo de Sahara. Esto es sencillamente una realidad surrealista.

Cuando Erdogan, el presidente de Turquía, mutila y enjaula a sus propios ciudadanos, se puede pensar en que si la gente que escapa de la guerra en Siria recibe aunque sea ese mismo trato de él. Claro que no lo recibe.

La Unión Europea le compra a Turquía los servicios de almacenamiento de personas. Esta es una de las tratas de seres humanos más grandes de la historia, pero no es llamada trata de seres humanos.

En Turquía, la gente es almacenada en contenedores, tiendas de campaña, en estaciones de trenes, debajo de puentes, a la interperie.

Los países del planeta son clasificados de diferentes formas. También son clasificados según la manera en que los principios del estado de derecho son puestos en práctica en cada país.  Un estado de derecho significa un estado en el que los que tienen el poder  están bajo las mismas leyes al igual que los demás ciudadanos o los solicitantes de asilo. Un estado derecho significa también un estado en el que se matienen vigentes los derechos humanos fundamentales.

En una lista reciente de estado de derecho (World Justice Project) los países nordicos aparecen como los primeros. El primero es Dinamarca, el segundo Noruega, el tercero es Finlandia y el cuarto Suecia.

Turquía, el socio de nosotros los civilizados europeos en asuntos de derechos humanos y comercio de armas, no tiene éxito. Nigeria, Sierra Leona, Liberia y Uzbekistán son mejores estados de derecho que Turquía.  Todos estos son estados en los que los derechos de las personas son raros, al azar y arbitrarios.

Cuando nosotros, los europeos, creemos que compramos derechos humanos de Turquía, pisoteamos nuestro patrimonio humanitario y cristiano. Estos días no son para nada los momentos de esplendor de Europa.

El racismo, la extrema derecha y el nacionalismo se expanden por nuestro continente. Pocos páises han evitado ser contagiados. Tampoco los países modelos de las estadísticas, los países nórdicos, lo han evitado.

Cuando un nazi comete un acto de violencia brutal en el centro de Helsinki, el euurodiputado del partido  los Finlandeses Verdaderos considera que es un acto “lamentable a nivel individual”. El jefe del grupo parlamentario de los Finlandeses Verdaderos, Juho Eerola, describe la violencia nazista como “coincidencia triste”. La violencia política brutal no es nunca una “coincidencia triste”. Cuando un murciélago en su vuelo nocturno choca con las aspas de un molino de viento, eso es una coincidencia triste. (Esta última frase tiene qque ver con la opinión que tiene alguna gente de ese partido político sobre los molinos de viento y el daño que los mismos causan a los murciélagos).

Nuestro primer ministro Juha Sipilä escribe en su diario: “Durante las semanas anteriores han sucedido actos de violencia, que preocupan ampliamente a las personas y debilitan nuestro sentimiento de seguridad. La policía investiga tanto lo ocurrido en la plazoleta de la estación de ferrocarriles como lo ocurrido en Otanmäki.” (Cerca del centro de acogida de otanmäki encontraron a un ciudadano muerto y dos solicitantes de asilo han sido detenidos y el caso está siendo estudiado por las autoridades.)

Ambos actos de violencia son repudiables y los culpables recibirán su castigo a su debido tiempo, pero la equiparación de ambos actos de esa manera es una locura. Según Sipilä, el primer ministro de Finlandia, el sentimiento de seguridad de los finlandeses es trastornado por dos organizaciones extremistas: los nazis y los solicitantes de asilo.

El primer ministro a dicho a los medios de difusión que él no quiso decir eso, pero sí eso fue lo que dijo.

Como un país pequeño, típicamente, en Finlandia se busca el camino del medio porque parece seguro. También se busca camino del medio donde no existe. Entre los defensores y los que están en contra de los derechos humanos no existe un camino del medio y tampoco solución producto de negociación. Los derechos humanos o son respetados o no. El camino del NO nos lleva al infierno.

Los dirigentes políticos finlandeses saben que la xenofobia es una fuerza política fuerte en nuestro país. Los xenofobos votan y sus sentimientos no deben ser ofendidos innecesariamente. Hay que ayudarles cerca de donde viven, es decir aquí.

Esta interpretación es inevitable: la política finlandesa está siendo rehén de los xenofobos. Por eso hacen falta víctimas mortales para que el primer ministro dé una declaración aguada.

El parlamento de Finlandia suele mostrar su inclinación cultural visitando una vez al año la ópera, el teatro o el cine. Eso es algo bueno. ¿Podría el parlamento de Finlandia comprarles una vez al año un libro de ficción finlandés a los parlamentarios? ¿O es que eso podría despertar cólico cultural peligroso en “Arkadianmäki”? (Arkadianmäki es el nombre de la colina donde se encuentra el edificio del parlamento de Finlandia.)

Comprendo muy bien que de los parlamentarios y sus cónyugues toman bellas fotos cuando, cuando llegan a la ópera con ropa de domingo. Los parlamentarios leyendo libros no interesan mucho a los medios de difusión. ¿Pero podría resolverse este problema?

Leer libros de ficción sigue siendo la mejor manera de ponerse en la piel de otra persona. Promueve nuestra capacidad de empatía. Es solamente una palabra civilizada, no hay que temerle. Significa compasión.

Si no se vive con empatía, no se vive. “Ellei elä myötä, ei elä ollenkaan.”

No menosprecio el conocimiento, pero no puedo  dejar de citar las ideas de una de las personas más inteligentes de este mundo, del físico Albert Einsteinin: La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento porque la imaginación no tiene límites.

Vuelvo un momento a la migración internacional que intentamos impedir con dinero. Esta crisis no es en su esencia económica o administrativa sino ética y humana. Por eso tiene solución.

Ese mismo problema moral fue pensado por el filósofo chino Confucio. Desde China la idea se expandió a través de los siglos al judaísmo y al cristianismo.  Se menciona en casi todas las religiones de alguna manera. Es una idea ingenua e infantil. 

“Trata a los demás como quieras que te trataran a ti”. “Niin kuin te tahdotte ihmisten tekevän teille, niin tehkää te heille.”

Gracias.

Jari Tervo

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Jari Tervo nació en la ciudad de Rovaniemi el 2 de febrero de1959. Tervo ha escrito una veintena de libros entre novelas y cuentos. A comienzos de su carrera escribió poesía. Algunas de sus obras son:  “El hijo del policía” y “Goliat”, obra satírica publicada en el año 2009.  Tervo ha escrito también guiones de televión y ha sido galardonado con diversos premios nacionales.

UPDATE: How can a rape of an adolescent visitor happen at the Villa Meri asylum reception center?

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Migrant Tales published Thursday a story about a list of complaints by an asylum seeker of the Villa Meri reception center of Rauma, located 91 kilometers north of the southwestern city of Turku. The reception the story got was quite a surprise considering that present and former volunteers of Villa Meri accused me of racism, hating and using all asylum seekers, hating all reception center workers, and of having an agenda.

UPDATE: Migrant Tales will have news on the case Saturday.

One of these volunteers even threatened to sue me.

For what? For publishing what an asylum seeker’s list of complaints?

Doesn’t the Villa Meri asylum reception center have any rules about who can speak on behalf of the reception center? If not, it shows that there is either mismanagement or no management at the center.

The same complaints that were given to Migrant Tales in March from asylum seekers at Villa Meri hadn’t changed in November with the horrific exception that a rape of an adolescent was committed.

Migrant Tales was heatedly criticized on Facebook’s Rasmus by former and present volunteers of Vill Meri for asking a sensible question: How is it possible that an adolescent visitor gets raped at the center?


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To that question, we heard some of the most incredible excuses like it’s not the job of the staff to watch over asylum seekers and visitors like children. The staff isn’t  responsible for what happened hto the adolescent, was echoed by another visitor.

While the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) doesn’t give recommendations to asylum centers on how to improve security, it’s the security guards job at the center to ensure the staff’s and asylum seekers’ safety.

I’d be very surprised if an exhaustive investigation isn’t being conducted now to find out why an adolescent was raped at the center. Even if some claim that the staff and management aren’t responsible for what happened, they are if negligence can be proven.

Some asylum centers in Finland take precautions. One such center in southern Finland does the following:

1) visitors are watched by the staff; (2) corridors are watched by camera; (3) empty rooms are locked (the rape at Villa Meri took place in an empty unlocked room); (4) there are areas of the camp that are off limits to visitors and asylum seekers.

Will such measures prevent a rape? It will make it harder for someone who has rape on his mind.

On top of possible negligence, there’s another factor that incriminates the staff and management. The asylum seekers allegedly warned them that something bad could happen to the adolescent that was raped. They alleged the adolescent had a “bad reputation” (sic!) because she hung around men and boys, which is taboo for single adolescents and women in some Middle East regions.

Why weren’t the warnings of the asylum seekers taken on board and acted upon?

If the asylum seekers are to be believed, relations with the manager of the camp, Päivi Nikkola, are poor as with the staff. Moreover, the camp manager is never around and impossible for the asylum seekers to meet and talk with her.

It may well be that some heads may roll at Villa Meri for what happened.

But the most important matter that we can learn from what happened is to not commit the same mistakes committed at the reception center in Rauma.

The Villa Meri center is run by Hoivapalvelu Metsätähti, a private company owned by Mehiläinen.

 

UPDATE: Problems at Rauma’s Villa Meri asylum reception persist and have gotten worse

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Migrant Tales

In March, Migrant Tales reported about the problems at the Villa Meri asylum reception of Rauma, a western Finnish city located 91 kilometers north of Turku. Some of these problems, which were cited back then, persist and have gotten worse. 

Some of the problems cited at the reception center about eight months ago were threats to deport asylum seekers to Iraq, bullying, no contact with the manager Päivi Nikkola, bad food, no places for children to play, no access to a doctor, among other complaints.

Apparently, matters have gotten so bad at the reception center that the manager doesn’t communicate any longer with the residents.

UPDATE: What do asylum reception centers do to avoid rape and other bodily harm to people?

1) visitors are watched by the staff; (2) corridors are watched by camera; (3) empty rooms are locked (the rape that took place at the reception center was allegedly in an empty room); (4) there are areas of the camp that are off limits to visitors and asylum seekers.

 

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Previous stories published by Migrant Tales in March.

The residents of the asylum reception center, which are all families and today number 70-80 persons, sent in spring a complaint to the parliamentary ombudsman.

While the complaint and hunger strike were made about eight months ago, the problems at the center persist and have gotten worse. A rape occurred at the reception center. If the asylum seekers are to be believed, the rape could have been prevented if there was better communication with the staff and manager.

The Villa Meri asylum reception center is a private company run by Hoivapalvelu Metsälahti, a subsidiary owned by Mehiläinen.

After speaking with an asylum seeker at the center Wednesday, these are the complaints that he made:

  • The manager, Nikkola, is never present. The staff sent her the complaints by asylum seekers but she refused to meet with them. The answer that the staff gave to the asylum seekers is that the manager is too busy to meet with them;
  • Whenever the asylum seekers ask for something, a staffer answers that he or she must wait for approval from the manager. They never get an answer;
  • Some of the asylum-seeker residents claim that poor communication with the manager and staff was what led to a rape at the reception center;
  • There are three suspects in the rape case: a father, his son, who is a minor, and a third person;
  • The asylum seekers told the management of the camp on a number of occasions to not let the young girl in the reception center because she had “a bad reputation” (becaue she hung around with a boy)  and warned something bad could happen to her;*
  • The minor suspected of rape is allegedly the victim’s boyfriend;*
  • The food served at the center was one complaint that the asylum seekers had and which led to a hunger strike in March.

Continue reading “UPDATE: Problems at Rauma’s Villa Meri asylum reception persist and have gotten worse”

The new Other face of Finland is beautiful

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Migrant Tales

Every story that I read about the new faces of Finland, which is much older than anyone would care to admit, I get excited and inspired. In a flash, I see everything and understand who I am. For a fleeting moment, my thoughts are in perfect balance with my gut feelings and who I am: I belong here, always have and always will. 

An interview in Ylioppilaslehti below is a wonderful example of how not only Finland has changed from a country that believed incorrectly it was monocultural to one that is today ever-culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse.

It is the job of the Other Finns to spearhead Finland to a new Finnish identity in the new century.

And the person in the article below, an attractive young woman, states the following at the end of the story:

“It’s absurd that a Finn in the year 2016 is forced to fight for his own identity and whether he belongs to that imagined community called Finland. We cannot build Finland, defend it by excluding a large number of people because they’re not like the rest and because they came from somewhere else.

Many don’t understand that Finnish identity is changing. It has already changed. It’s high time that we grow accustomed to this.”

 

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Read the full story here.

In the 1970s when I visited my grandparents every summer from Southern California, some people didn’t believe that I was from Argentina because nobody from such a distant country visited Finland.

Continue reading “The new Other face of Finland is beautiful”

(Migrants’ Rights Network) The Calais Jungle – a beacon for the fight against refugee injustice

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Migrant Tales

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The Jungle camp in Calais has challenged the indifference of official Europe to the plight of refugees for close on two decades. It has survived previous attempts at demolition. As long as the grievances that gave rise to remain it will come back to haunt the conscience of the continent.

As you read this CRS police squads, acting on French government orders, will once again be destroying the make-shift homes and personal property of the 9000 people who are trying to survive in the Calais refugee camp.

They have returned to this task sporadically over the years.  In April 2009 a determined effort to close the camp led to the arrest of 109, with bulldozers destroying the tents of around 800 refugees.

Regrouped after assault

Within weeks the victims of this assault had regrouped and the Jungle was up-and-running again.  Another dawn raid in September the same year saw 276 refugees arrested, but the camp survived and even flourished as the wretched home for thousands of people who could find nowhere else to live.

Heedless of past failures to vanquish the refugees, the French government ordered another clearance in January.  This one displaced around 1000 people.  The forcible eviction was accompanied by efforts to get the refugees to accept alternative accommodation in 125 metal shipping containers. Take-up has been patchy.

Instead French NGOs report there are at least eleven other camps in the region.  The biggest is in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk. Others are in Boulogne, Dieppe and Le Havre. Smaller ‘jungles’ pop up across the Pay du Nord and Normandy at road junctions and petrol stations – almost anywhere where port-bound traffic slows and there is a chance to jump in the back of a lorry that might possibly be en route to England.

Continue reading “(Migrants’ Rights Network) The Calais Jungle – a beacon for the fight against refugee injustice”

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