géographe & citoyenne engagée
Germany deports Afghan refugees in effort to deter new arrivals
Germany’s interior minister has confirmed that the country has flown refugees back to Afghanistan. The move comes as Berlin seeks to stem the flow of asylum seekers into the country.
#Allemagne #Afghanistan #réfugiés_afghans #renvois #expulsion #réfugiés #asile #migrations
The UN Should Just Say No to Returning Refugees to Danger
Pressure is building on Afghan and Somali refugees to go home, even if they no longer have homes to return to. It is not surprising that this pressure is coming from governments that have been hosting huge numbers of refugees and want to end what seems to them like a never-ending burden. What is surprising is that the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, is facilitating refugee returns to places that it knows cannot accommodate them and that may put their lives in danger.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/27/un-should-just-say-no-returning-refugees-danger
#Somalie
Afghan Exodus : Afghan asylum seekers in Europe (3) – case study Germany
Germany led in Europe in almost all categories of incoming refugees and asylum applications in 2015 and 2016, both in absolute and relative figures. Roughly six out of ten migrants who came to Europe ended up in Germany. Afghans were strongly represented in all those categories. This prompted the German government to change its 2015 asylum policy, which was widely seen as generous overall, towards more rigidity. It even applied specific measures to make the country less attractive for Afghan refugees, with the aim of decreasing their number. It also took the lead in pushing the Afghan government to readmit rejected asylum seekers. This made Afghans – in contrast to Syrians, Iraqis and Eritreans – ‘second class asylum seekers’, finds AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig in this last of a three-part dispatch series. At the end, he draws some conclusions from all three parts of this series.
#Accord_bilatéral entre Allemagne et Afghanistan :
With its bilateral ‘readmission’ agreement with the Afghan government – signed on the same day as the EU-Afghan “Joint Way Forward” framework document, 3 October 2016 – the government in Berlin opened the way to more ‘returns’ of rejected Afghan asylum seekers. The agreement is called “Joint Declaration of Intent on Cooperation in the Field of Migration,” but its text has not been published (AAN has seen a copy in English). AAN also has learned in Kabul that the Afghan government had asked that the document not be called an “agreement,” as in that case it would have to be submitted to the Afghan parliament where approval was far from sure – see the events around the Swedish agreement mentioned in part 1 of this series (see also here).
▻https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/afghan-exodus-afghan-asylum-seekers-in-europe-3-case-study-ger
Germany to refugees : ’Leaving Afghanistan ? Think again’
Critics say embassy’s campaign will do little to deter would-be refugees determined to make perilous journey to Germany.
Do not believe the rumours and false information deliberately spread by human traffickers about the allegedly easy trip and the easy life in Germany.
Do not risk your lives by trying to flee to Europe.
Human traffickers are criminals who are only interested in money. They don’t tell the truth and don’t care about human lives.
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