Migración: Los refugiados en el mundo

Migracja: Uchodźcy na świecie

On the Move: Migration Worldwide

Un nombre record de déplacés dans le monde

Weltflüchtlingstag: 82.4 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht

Il Grande Esodo

There are 79.5 million refugees and displaced people currently in the world. This is the unbelievable figure from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and an historic high with 1% of humanity currently fleeing war, violence and political or religious persecution.

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In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back potential asylum seekers towards Turkish waters. That's despite the fact that once in Europe, these people have a right to apply for asylum and to have that application processed. But while this tactic is against EU human rights law, the Greek government have a promise to keep to its electorate: reducing the flow of migrants.

ARTE Reportage

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law

Greece: Illegal Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers

In 2020 around 20,000 people arrived on the Canary Islands on small boats from the west coast of Africa, ten times more than in 2019. 

Canary Islands Under Migrant Pressure

Fearing the increasingly hard-line measures that the Chinese authorities are taking with democracy protestors, hundreds of young Hongkongers have sought refuge in neighbouring Taiwan.

Hong Kong Refugees in Taiwan

Tigrayans have been caught up in war and have had to flee Ethiopia. Across the border in Sudan they are welcomed in camps. Yarid, a maths teacher, and his wife Saba try to make the best of things in their new home.

Sudan: Tigrayan Refugees Arrive from Ethiopia

Khalil fled Syria in 2015. He currently lives in southern Germany. He realised that people's attitudes towards him totally changed when they heard him speak their language and their dialect. So he decided to immerse himself in the language. By playing with German words, he makes people laugh. 

Refugees in Their Own Words

When Khalil fled to Germany from Syria, he knew if he wanted to flourish in his new life he had to live and breathe German

From Syria to Germany

In the  overcrowded Moria refugee camp, home to 20,000, one young  Afghan woman is helping others by teaching them English.

Greece: The Moria Refugee Camp on Lesbos

Anlam's answer to the unrelenting violence in Syria is unrelenting kindess. She herself may not have much, but she has a kind word, a blanket, or a bit of food for every terrified refugee family that crosses her path. 

Anlam's answer to the unrelenting violence in Syria is unrelenting kindess

Syria: Trapped in Idlib

Via makeshift boats or hidden in the wheels of trucks, these children travelled to Europe alone, without their parents. In 2018, Spain welcomed more than 13,000 migrant children, most often from Morocco or sub-Saharan Africa. Now is the hard part: raising them.

Arriving in makeshift boats or hidden in the wheels of trucks, migrant children come alone, hoping for a better life but longing for their mothers

Spain: Migrant Children in Barcelona

In January 2018 Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi went out to sea with the migrant rescue ship Aquarius. This film records his experiences on board.

Aboard the Aquarius

Mare Amarum

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In August 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built, Karin was on vacation. But when she returned to the University of Leipzig, that's when she realised how harsh the East German regime could be. So she decided to try to find a way out.

Karin wanted to escape East Germany. But her attempt to flee would cost her everything

Escape From East Germany

Skender is an Albanian who grew up in Kosovo, where he would play football with his Serbian friends. But when Milošević came to power, life quickly became unbearable for Skender and his family. His father, a politician committed to a free Kosovo, was forced to flee and Skender was arrested.

Skender is an Albanian who grew up in Kosovo. In 1992, his life fell apart

Hate Thy Neighbour

Hans is a loyal citizen of the GDR and proud to be a party member at 18 years old. But the 1968 Prague Spring changes his mind, making him want to leave for the West.

Hans Escapes the GDR via Denmark

In 1985 Aida arrived in Germany from Eritrea at the age of ten having never seen snow before and never having heard the German language.

Aida: From Eritrea to Germany

Jutta was three years old when she had to flee from Pomerania in 1945 as the Russian army approached. Eventually she ended up in south west Germany where everything seemed different.

Jutta - A Foreigner in Her Own Country

Perwin fled Syria because of the war. By the time she arrived in Gemany she had missed out on four years of schooling, and now she’s the oldest in the class.

Refugees In Their Own Words

Further, But Where?

Sepideh was 17 when she left Iran with her family to settle in Germany. After the Islamic Revolution the future was bleak for girl with little access to education.

On the Move: Migration Worldwide

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Greece: Illegal Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers

Canary Islands Under Migrant Pressure

Hong Kong Refugees in Taiwan

Sudan: Tigrayan Refugees Arrive from Ethiopia

From Syria to Germany

Greece: The Moria Refugee Camp on Lesbos

Syria: Trapped in Idlib

Spain: Migrant Children in Barcelona

Your Exit

From Syria to Germany

Escape From East Germany

Hate Thy Neighbour

Hans Escapes the GDR via Denmark

Aida: From Eritrea to Germany

Jutta - A Foreigner in Her Own Country

Further, But Where?

Finding Roots