#migrant route

[gregor-samsung]

Babai [Father] (Visar Morina - 2015)

[mchiti]

I know in the midst of a game I might kill the mood, but I'm super sad today. A boat with many migrants on broke up after hitting a rock, near the cost in south italy. 100 migrants drowned and the death toll will rise. europe is a shame, the west is a shame, I feel ashamed for the world I have to live in.

[sisididis]

It looks like Romania won’t be joining Schengen after all. 😞

[trendynewsnow]

Italian Navy Transfers Migrants to Albania Amid Legal Challenges

Italian Navy Ship Transfers Migrants to Albania An Italian navy vessel made a significant docking at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Friday, transporting eight migrants. This transfer comes approximately one month after a prior group of migrants was denied entry due to an unsuccessful vetting process. The newly arrived group will now undergo asylum processing before being relocated to the…

[phaon1]

One man dies in Channel crossing attempt

Baby dead and dozens rescued in Channel sinking

Not nearly enough is being done to support migrants. Instead, they are being demonised. Migrant rights are human rights. We need safe routes for migrants

[pinkcadillaccas]

Every time a political leader says that there is no place for violence in politics I think about all of the people who's lives have been ruined or even taken from them because of less obvious forms of political violence that these fuckers have enacted and it makes me wish to god that political assassination was more common.

[creativemedianews]

Eight migrants died while attempting to cross the English Channel

[my-smial]

I have a relative who spent decades as a phone operator in a rural area, and it honestly gets even more fascinating than this. These were they days when you didn't even really call phone numbers; you called the operator, and then they routed you to the correct number.

But what this meant, in reality, was that she was required to be the center of the town gossip network. She'd get a call asking for Larry and have to know that on Wednesday nights Larry was working at the pub downtown. Or an incensed parent would call her up yelling ROBBY! GET ME ROBBY! and she'd have to know who was calling (because they were certainly yelling too much to give a last name) and that Robby is currently living with the Smiths over on the west side of town. As much as the technical skills, her job was just to know where every single person was likely to be at any given time, and call around until she found them.

Remember phones? Remember when phones were attached to a place and not a person?

You'd call the location in hopes of talking to someone you're guessing might be there, and if someone else answers, you'd have to do the social dance with them to even have a chance of talking to the right person. If the person you want to talk to isn't there, you might ask to "leave a message" and you'd just have to trust that this house has reliable communication culture.

Ideally they person taking a message would write the message down. If this person is me as a teenager, they would assume they'd remember the message, not bother to write it down, then forget it basically immediately. It took me years to realize this was happening.

I'm convinced that (barring some kind of physiological defect) everyone's brain is about as good as everyone else's and the "gifted kids" just happened to specialize in certain obvious or valued abilities at the expense of other abilities.

[garudabluffs]

The Darien Gap is the world's most dangerous migrant route. CNN chronicled 5 days on the route April 20,2023

"There's only one way to walk from South to Central America — a route so fraught with danger that no one with any other option would choose it. It's called the Darien Gap, 66 miles of treacherous mountains, mud and jungle. Yet last year a quarter of a million people attempted the crossing.

The U.S. government recently pledged that its intelligence forces will assist Colombia and Panama to dismantle the smuggling rings that operate the Gap. But for now, the numbers are growing.

CNN chief international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh recently made the trek, chronicling the journey in a mini-documentary called "The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America." He joins host Robin Young to talk about the trek, and the policies and corruption that fuel it.

LISTEN 09:26 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/04/20/darien-gap-migrant-route

(Part 2) The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America | The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh, travels with a group of migrants as they make the arduous trek on foot through Central and South America. The journey through the Darien Gap is a perilous jungle crossing between Colombia and Panama that many migrants must face as they head north to seek asylum in the United States. Over five harrowing days, Paton Walsh hikes the full 66-mile roadless route, documenting the heroism of everyday people, milked for cash by drug cartels and unwanted by any country, as they battle the dense rainforest in search of a better life. Watch 'The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper' Sundays at 8PM ET on CNN.

Watch all parts of the documentary here: Part 1: https://bit.ly/3mEkOBC Part 2: https://bit.ly/3KJTDNO Part 3: https://bit.ly/40epxYc Part 4: https://bit.ly/3GJDTcw Part 5: https://bit.ly/3oeKLbk #NickPatonWalsh #TheWholeStory #andersoncooper

[girlonthelasttrain]

There are several NGO-funded ships currently operating in the central Mediterranean Sea with the specific intent of saving migrants from what has been for years one of the deadliest migration routes in the world. Here is partial list:

Geo Barents (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Ocean Viking (SOS Méditerranée)

Aurora, Sea Watch 3 and Sea Watch 5 (Sea Watch)

Life Support (Emergency)

Open Arms and other ships (Open Arms)

Another important resource for migrants in distress at sea is the hotline AlarmPhone.

Since 2016 these rescue missions have become more and more onerous to fund as EU countries have progressively strengthened the Frontex program while at the same time criminalizing NGO-led search and rescue operations. (Italy has been at the forefront of this trend, and a shipwreck on the coast of Calabria in late February this year only managed to strengthen the resolve of the current government to make it even more complex for NGOs to try and rescue migrants.) So while it definitely won't solve the root issue, donating to these NGOs still has a tangible effect.

[mchiti]

in the last 48 hours 7000 migrants have arrived in lampedusa (sicily, italy): highest number ever in such a short time. Imagine how these 7000 people are going to feel in there, while italian government don’t give a shit and UE stay absolutely silent as this is not something that they should care about too. 7000 people in 2 days within a very very small island near sicily.

[metamatar]

Employers desire foreign workers who are accustomed to the hazardous work sites of industrial construction; in particular, they specifically solicit migrants who do not have a history of labor organizing within SWANA. In response, labor brokerage firms brand themselves as offering migrant workers who are deferential. Often, labor brokers conflate the category of South Asian with docility; [...] as inherently passive, disciplined, and, most important, unfettered by volatile working conditions. "We say quality, they [U.S. employers] say seasoned. We both know what it means. Workers who are not going to quit, not going to run away in the foreign country and do as they are told.” [...]

For migrants, the U.S. oil industry presents a rare chance to apply their existing skill set in a country with options for permanent residency and sponsorship of family members. Migrants wish to find an end to their tem­porary worker status; they imagine the United States as a liberal economy in which labor standards are enforced and there are opportunities for citizenship and building a life for their family. [...] What brokers fail to explain is that South Asian migrants are being recruited as guest workers. Migrants will not have access to U.S. citizenship or visas for family members; in fact, their employment status will be quite similar to their SWANA migration.

While nations such as the Philippines have both state-mandated and independent migrant rights agencies, the Indian government has minimal avenues for worker protection. These are limited to hotlines for reporting abusive foreign employers and Indian consulates located in a few select countries of the SWANA region. [... Brokers] emphasize the docility of Indian migrants in comparison to the disruptive tendencies of other Asian migrant workers. [...] “Some of these Filipino men you see make a lot of trouble in the Arab countries. Even their women, who work as maids and such, lash out. The employer says one wrong thing and the workers get the whole country [the Philippines] on the street. [...] But you don’t see our people creating a tamasha [spectacle] overseas.” [...] Just as Filipinx migrants are racialized to be undisciplined labor, Indian brokers construct divisions within the South Asian workforce to promote the primacy of their own firms. In particular, Pakistani workers are racialized as an abrasive population.

[...] While the public image of the South Asian American community remains as model minorities, presumed to be primarily upwardly mobile professionals, the global reality of the population is quite to the contrary. [...] From the historic colonial routes initiated by British occupation of South Asia to the emergence of energy markets within the countries of SWANA, migrants have been recruited to build industries by contributing their labor to construction projects. Within the last decade, these South Asian migrants, with experience in the SWANA oil industry, have been actively solicited as guest workers into the energy sector of the United States. The growth of hydraulic fracturing has opened new territory for oil extraction; capitalizing on the potential market are numerous stakeholders who have invested in industrial construction projects across the southwestern United States. The solicitation of South Asian construction workers is not coincidental. [...] Kartik, a globally competitive firm’s broker, explains the connection of Indian labor to practices of the past. “You know we come from a long history of working in foreign lands. Even the British used to send us to Africa and the Arab regions to work in the mines and oil fields. It’s part of our history.”

Seasoning Labor: Contemporary South Asian Migrations and the Racialization of Immigrant Workers, Saunjuhi Verma in the Journal of Asian American Studies

[phaon1]

The government needs to do more for safe routes.

[withnofreetime]

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P.1.

"Cazzo", "f*ck!"

"Bastardo", "Bastard"

About Cost. (GDP; millions, aprox.)

Austria -> € 447 - $ 526 182

Netherlands -> € 941* - $ 1,092,748

Hungary -> € 188,443* - $ 203 829

Romania -> € 278,005* - $ 300,691

Bulgaria --> € 83,529 - $ 90,346

*not official, conversion ($ -> €)

P.2.

"Schengen Agreement" Overview, a kind of timeline.

"Conflict Bulgaria & Romania and Austria". Due to the increase in illegal inmigration and corruption in both countries, Austria had refused Bulgaria's entry many times.

"Schengen Area" because it was signed in Schengen, Luxembourg.

Another timeline! (2023)

Extract from Wikipedia: "On 8 December 2022 the Justice and Home Affairs Council voted to admit Croatia to the Schengen Area, but rejected Bulgaria and Romania. Austria and the Netherlands voted against the inclusion of Bulgaria and Romania, with Austria claiming that there had been a rapid increase in the number of migrants using the West Balkan route to enter the EU illegally. 20 On 30 December 2023 the EU agreed to include Bulgaria and Romania in the Schengen Area, with Austria no longer vetoing the enlargement of the area. Air and sea ports no longer conduct border checks from 31 March 2024, while the end of land border checks require further discussions."

"About Hungary & Bulgaria". If the information is correct, there was a "threat" from the Hungarian government to vote against Bulgaria's entry into the agreement if they didn't solve the Russian gas problem, yeah, taxes.

But they did it! Press realese, European Comission.

"Romanian Industry". Talks more about Poland and Romania's future struggles in the industry.

"Bulgaria, and 'rich kid' allegations" Probably talking about the Golden Age of Bulgaria, first Empire in the mid 19-century. Or the Second Golden Age. The Bizantine Empire and the Italian Kingdom had economic relationships with the first Bulgarian Empire.

P.3.

"Netherlands & Bulgaria". The Netherlands government was against Bulgaria and Romania's entry. And then not.

P.4.

"yправител" in Bulgarian. It might mean "general", "manager" or "administrator".

SPANISH VERSION

Italia habla de Bulgaria y Romania como si tuviera 80 años. Me saqué un 85% en mi examen de C2 de Español... no es una parodia por COMPLETO, pero tampoco lo tomen en serio.

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