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Prepare yourselves: The Great Migration will be with us for decades
When the crew of HMS Bulwark first fished immigrants out of the Mediterranean, they were expecting to find the world’s hungry, wretched and destitute. Instead, they found them relatively healthy, well-dressed and carrying mobile phones and credit cards, which they intended to use upon arrival in Italy. The military learnt then what politicians are only slowly beginning to work out – that this is not simply a refugee crisis.
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Austrians stunned as migrants arrive: ‘Small children with barely any food. It’s crazy.’
They left their homes in war-torn Syria; were "stuck in squalid conditions" in Hungary for days; and then were forced to make a 100-mile journey, in part by foot and later by bus. The asylum-seekers were met with blankets and tea handed out by Red Cross workers as they crossed into Austria on Saturday, but it only was a respite as they continued their journeys beyond the border.
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Syrian toddler Aylan's father drove capsized boat, other passengers say
The father of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi was working with smugglers and driving the flimsy boat that capsized trying to reach Greece, other passengers on board said, in an account that disputes the version he gave last week. Ahmed Hadi Jawwad and his wife, Iraqis who lost their 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son in the crossing, told Reuters that Abdullah Kurdi panicked and accelerated when a wave hit the boat...
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'Finland's no good': Disappointed migrants turn back
Hundreds of predominantly Iraqi migrants who have travelled through Europe to reach Finland are turning back, saying they don't want to stay in the sparsely-populated country on Europe's northern frontier because it's too cold and boring. Migrants have in recent weeks been crossing back into Sweden at the Haparanda-Tornio border just an hour's drive south of the Arctic Circle, and Finnish authorities have...
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We're doomed: EU chief fears union will COLLAPSE over migrant crisis
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, warned the EU was now facing a "critical point" and that the migrant crisis hadn't even reached its peak. As he chaired an emergency meeting of EU leaders in Brussels last night Mr Tusk painted a bleak picture of the EU's future, saying the 28-member bloc was on the verge of breakdown with "recriminations and misunderstanding" pitting nations against one another.
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How to Welcome Winter Birds
Fall may mean migration, but one bird’s north is just another bird’s south.
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An Invisible River of Birds
Songbirds migrate at night. Their high-pitched chirps may keep the flock together.
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One country that won't be taking Syrian refugees: Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a call to host refugees from Syria and elsewhere, saying that while Israel is "not indifferent to the human tragedy of the refugees," it is not in a position to take them in. Netanyahu was responding to Israeli liberals led by opposition leader Isaac Herzog, who said Jewish history demands that the nation show compassion. Having themselves felt the “world’s silence,"...
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Most Russians believe Europe should send migrants home after war ends
According to latest opinion polls, most Russians maintain European nations shouldn’t reject migrants from the Middle East and Africa, but also that the refugees should go back home after the end of wars and terrorist attacks in their countries.
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Ten Borders
One refugee’s epic escape from Syria. By Nicholas Schmidle.
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Disappointed migrants 'too frightened' to live in Swedish woods
When he fled the war in Syria, Abdullah Waez dreamed of a new life in Sweden. Waez and 52 other asylum seekers were shocked when migration officials brought them by bus to their new accommodation on Sunday: a cluster of red wooden cabins in a forest in the village of Limedsforsen, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of Stockholm.
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It's a Good Time to Be a Refugee Smuggler
With nearly 400,000 people arriving illegally in Greece this year, Syrian refugee smugglers are doing well. By Loubna Mrie and Miguel Winograd.
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The horror of the Calais refugee camp: ‘We feel like we are dying slowly’
Since the summer, the makeshift Jungle has quadrupled in size - it is now home to 6,000 desperate people. They are living in slum conditions, surviving on charity handouts and risking their lives under the wheels of trains. Now winter is coming… By Amelia Gentleman.
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French Mayor Who Once Defended Journalists Now Denounces Immigrants
Robert Ménard founded Reporters Without Borders, but has since been criticized by his former colleagues for assailing the growing North African culture in his city, Béziers. By Adam Nossiter.
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German Village of 102 Braces for 750 Asylum Seekers
This bucolic, one-street settlement of handsome redbrick farmhouses may for the moment have many more cows than people, but next week it will become one of the fastest growing places in Europe. Not that anyone in Sumte is very excited about it. In early October, the district government informed Sumte’s mayor, Christian Fabel, by email that his village of 102 people just over the border in what was once Communist East Germany would take in 1,000 asylum seekers.
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Germany’s opposition slams Berlin refugee deal
Germany's opposition parties have criticized a deal forged by coalition partners to control migration flows in Germany, saying it produces "little concrete action." Germany has struggled to cope with the influx.
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The Displaced: Hana
At 12, she has lived one-quarter of her life in a debilitating state of suspension as a Syrian refugee in Lebanon. By Susan Dominus.
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The Displaced: Oleg
At 11, he is living in the ruins of his former life [in the separatist area of eastern Ukraine]. By Lynsey Addario.
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Human Remains 629667
For most of US history no one much cared that Latinos were entering the country and driving the economy of the south-west. In the 1920s the US introduced restrictive immigration laws but it didn’t have Latinos in mind: the perceived dangers were ‘inassimilable’ Italians and Eastern European Jews… By Tom Stevenson.
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The Strange, True Story of How a [Partner] at McKinsey Made Millions of Dollars off His Maid
In 2009, Anil Kumar was arrested for his role in a lucrative insider-trading ring. That was not his biggest crime. By Nilita Vachani.
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