This Is How Europe’s Rules Discriminate Against Afghan Refugees

This Is How Europe’s Rules Discriminate Against Afghan Refugees

As Europe struggles to handle its refugee crisis, people running from the 14 year-long war in Afghanistan find themselves left on the outside. BuzzFeed News’ Jina Moore reports from Lesbos, Greece.

▻https://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/this-is-how-europes-rules-discriminate-against-afghan-refuge

Flight for Life : Afghans Are Now Second-Class Refugees

Since the Syrian refugee crisis, Afghan asylum seekers in Europe have had to work harder to prove their lives are in danger. But for many of the more than 55,000 who applied for asylum in Germany in the past five years, deportation means a death sentence.

▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/08/24/flight-for-life-afghans-are-now-second-class-refugees

How Afghans became second-class asylum seekers

When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West.

▻https://theconversation.com/how-afghans-became-second-class-asylum-seekers-72437

After Eu-Turkey deal, how to become second-class refugees

In 2015, one quarter of asylum seekers in Europe came from Afghanistan and Iraq. The 8 March agreement between the EU and Turkey might create a double class of refugees: those who will have the right to pass and those who will have to go back.

▻http://openmigration.org/en/analyses/after-eu-turkey-deal-how-to-became-second-class-refugees/?platform=hootsuite
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