diumenge, 10 d’abril del 2016

Greece faces the challenge of handling thousands of requests for asylum

Exhausted by the economic crisis, now Greece has to face a huge migration crisis. This July, when Greece moves away from an “economic crack”, every day thousands of migrants arrived at the Greek islands, a flow that keeps growing. In only December, arrived more than 200.000 persons but then, Greece were just a scale, the Greek authorities only have to attend the emigrants a few days and then, let them continue their journey to the north, to Germany especially. But now this is impossible, the borders are closed and Greek is overflow.
Since January, the Greek authorities have received more than 10.000 asylum applications what suppose a problem for the government: the process of revising this request can take years, each case must be attended individually, in a confidential way, interviewed by asylum experts, with interpreter and a lawyer and for this, the government has decided to approve a new law with the objective of examining in an expressway (by 15 days) the asylum applications.  Meanwhile, more than 2.800 refugees are living in makeshift refugee camps in hockey and football stadiums.


I find this new interesting because we can see very clear that although each government of each European country is very conscious about human rights and the importance of respect them, into practice, all is very different. This is not one of the worst new you can find about what refugees are living. Day after day, hundreds of people try to arrive at our countries risking their lives and also, the life of their families and leaving everything behind. 
This last weekend I was watching a football match on TV and I see a poster that gets my attention: “Not to racism”. Immediately comes to my head the image of thousands of refugees who day by day try to cross our borders and reach Europe while we close the door. Is not this a form of discrimination? I know and I understand that a country can’t welcome thousands of refugees day in day out, but governments should be more conscious about the situation of these people and must take decisions: it can’t be that millions of men, women, child,… have to be living in precarious conditions in our borders because the governments are still “taking decisions”, many of the refugees that arrive at our countries have already faced many problems (the war, what supposed to leave your country, the immigration journey,…) for finding our doors close. For this I think that what Europe is doing with refugees it can’t be considered racism, the racism is de discrimination toward a person and Europe is dehumanizing refugees.

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