Current situation of
refugees in Europe
In the last months Europe has experienced an mass arrival of refugees from the Middle East. After seeing pictures of a child corpse
washed up on the beach after an unsuccessful attempt to get to Europe and also
after news about a truck with 71 dead bodies found by the side of an Austrian motorway,
the German chancellor Merkel stated, that Germany would accept as many refugees
as possible. This statement probably caused, that a large majority of the
refugees are trying to find their new home in Germany. There have been almost 700.000
refugees so far this year and the amount will be rising. Germany closed the
borders, but after a few days, the border closure was changed to temporary
border controls with so called ‘refugees trains’ coming to Munich from Vienna. 2000-8000
refugees are coming to Vienna every day. Most of them stay inside Vienna's Main
Station or West Station, where approx. 200 volunteers care for them.
Refugee routes to
Europe
Thousands of refugees are risking their lives
while coming to Europe even if the route is very dangerous. Refugees from Syria
need to go through several countries to reach their final destination. Most of
the time it is Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. They choose the safest way
which starts in Turkey and continues in Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Austria.
Here is a simple abstract of refugees in other
countries:
Refugees in Lebanon
The number of registered Syrian refugees in
Lebanon is around 1, 1 million.
Refugees in Turkey
Turkey is the largest host of refugees in the
world. There are over 2 million refugees in the country.
Refugees in Jordan
There are over 628 000 Syrian refugees, 2
million Palestinian refugees and over 47 554 Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
Refugees in the Czech
Republic
The Czech Republic is mainly a transit country
for refugees. Within the framework of EU
it belongs to countries where the number of refugees is minimal. So far 679
foreigners have applied for international protection this year. (22.6.2015)
Refugees in care
Men
649
Women
94
Children
176
TOTAL
919
The most frequent nationality of clients in
refugee centers are from:
Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
(20.9.2015)
Refugees in Austria
Today are in Austria about 44.000 refugees in
care. The most refugees come from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. The most common
reasons why people are fleeing from their country are:
•War
conflicts
•Direct
pressure
•Afraid
of ISIS
Refugees in Slovakia
This statistic shows us, how many Refugees want
to come to the Slovakia, but also, how many of them will get or not get asylum
and also the rest of them, who are still waiting for an answer. Even though
many people say, that refugees don’t really want to come to Slovakia, they
actually do. This statistic shows us that about 12 000 refugees applied for
asylum, but only few of them really get it. The rest, about 10 000 have to wait
for a decision about their asylum requests, which will maybe never come. Is
this this one of the reasons, why they don’t want to live in Slovakia?
As you can see, the apportioning of refugees through
the countries doesn’t seem so fair. The states Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan have taken in about 2 million refugees and Czech Republic only about 700 but
we have to look at the economy, too. States like Turkey have a far better economy and when you look at the size of this state
and compare it with the size of the Czech Republic, its size is just like a tiny
little piece of Turkey. On the other hand, it’s true that the Czech Republic can take in more refugees than it has done.
