Syrians meet mainly two kinds of smugglers during their trip North: sea and land smugglers. The news usually cover traffickers when they talk about dangerous people gaining from the smuggling of human beings. Human smugglers are usually associated to forced prostitution or forced land working; we think of them as kidnappers who keep people working for […]
When a person wants to ask for asylum in a country member of the EU, this person can ask for it only once on European territory. Once here, this person is allowed to ask for asylum only in the first country of the Union that it enters. People who arrive to Italy by sea have, […]
The majority of Syrians who have passed through Italy in the past year and a half have left Syria around 2011 and 2012. As we have seen, these people often richer, were able to take flights to Egypt and Libya and from here they decided, sometimes months or years later, to take the road by […]
The Dublin regulation states that asylum seekers who arrive to Europe need to apply for protection in the first country that they enter. In order for this to be checked on, their fingerprints and photos will be taken and inserted in a database called Eurodec. Like this every time that someone applies for asylum in […]
Between 2012 and 2013 Sweden, declaredthat it would grant political asylum to all Syrians who would have applied for it. Other countries, like Norway, Germany, The Netherlands and France made a similar promise accepting a limited number of requests. To ask for political asylum means to ask protection and shelter to a state because of fear or […]
Since its beginning, the conflict in Syria, has created around 7,6 milions of internally displaced persons and more than 3 millions registered refugees although it has been estimated the real number is much higher. The majority of these people are staying in Syria’s neighbouring countries: Lebanon (1.700.000 people). Turkey (1.600.000) ad Jordan (800.000). At the beginning […]
Most people think that who arrives in Italy through the sea does it because they do not have enough money to pay for an airplane or because they want to try escaping controls at the border. Let’s prove these myths wrong right away by saying that a one-way ticket from Egypt or Libya to Northern Europe […]
During our events in schools and at evenings where we talked about our project and the trip that Syrians within Europe have to make, you have asked us many questions, you have expressed your doubts, perplexities and outrage. Starting from this one question that has left us feeling proud of being part of a world […]