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Forgotten Sufferers: From Education to Deportation, Refugees Face A Growing Crisis In Greece
Since summer school programs for refugee children failed last summer due to budget constraints and lack of staff, teachers have begun taking it upon themselves to teach Syrian children elementary Greek. But it's not so simple as it sounds.
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Two Years Into Refugee Crisis, Europe Tries to Wipe Its Hands Clean
There is little mention of the ongoing unwillingness by France or Germany to make good on their commitment to accept the promised number of refugees, nor further debate on Hungary’s and Poland’s outright refusal to admit any refugees within their borders.
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A Failure To Integrate: The Darker Picture of Europe's Refugee Crisis
The European Union has had a long history of conditionally welcoming refugees – Germany and France being prime examples in the 1950s – but an equally long history of failure to integrate them.
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Teargas Fired As Refugees Try To Breach Greek-Macedonian Border
Chaotic scenes have intensified across Greece as the embattled government edged closer to declaring a state of emergency to deal with tens of thousands of migrants and refugees trapped in the country.
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Michigan Governor's About-Face On Syrian Refugees Undercuts Resettlement Plans
Last week, a group of eight investors announced a first-of-its-kind project to resettle refugees on land purchased in Pontiac, north of Detroit – but the Paris terror attacks put a sudden freeze on the plan.
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Triumph Of Song: Syrian Musicians Who Fled Civil War Build A New Orchestra In Germany
Founded by musician-activists in Bremen, the orchestra composed of Syrian and local musicians came together to push back against the fearmongering and xenophobia that has arisen due to the refugee crisis in Europe.
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Thousands of Refugees Heading West and North Convulse Europe
Braving cancelled trains, police truncheons and torrential rain, record numbers of refugees continued to struggle through Europe as the continent remained bitterly divided over how to respond to its biggest migration crisis since the second world war.
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Refugees Blocked From Boarding Trains to Germany Sustain Protests In Budapest
With thousands of migrants standing by, Hungary's police said they intend to reinforce their positions outside the Keleti railway terminal as the volume of asylum-seekers arriving through Serbia grows by the hour.
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Exclusive: Up Close With the Hunger-Striking Refugees In France
Any of the 15 South Sudanese refugees I meet may die this night attempting to stowaway in a vehicle and cross the English Channel from the French port city of Calais.
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Aided By Activists, Shunned By Racists, Syria's War Refugees Find Rocky Ground In Bulgaria
Thousands who fled Syria don’t have official status so they can’t travel further West – trapping them in Europe's poorest, most corrupt and most racist country.