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Gin and Juche: Apr 3, 2008; The Highest Judge of Paradise
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Tesseraction posted:

As I recall this breakdown is 80% of the people making the crossings are working-age men trying to get to safety to earn money to afford to bring the rest of their family from the camps. Half of the total refugees (including the camps) are children.

Could you link me to either? Having trouble finding it itt

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Gin and Juche: Apr 3, 2008; The Highest Judge of Paradise
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Tesseraction posted:

Agh, I can't find it now either. Did I even read it in this thread or the Middle East one before discussion fully moved here? Someone was asking about it on these forums and someone on the ground over there replied back.

I found reference to it here: http://eaworldview.com/2015/09/syria-and-beyond-feature-9-myths-about-refugees-and-how-to-answer-them/

I'm not sure how feasible it is though without anything else backing it up.

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SaltyJesus posted:

finland ain't really where vikings came from

Nothing comes from Finland.

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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:

Actually the South Koreans do extensive interviewing and checking on each refugee to make sure they aren't a spy, so this analogy is kinda dumb.

And there aren't literal millions of North Korean refugees so extensive interviewing isn't an option.

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hackbunny posted:

Isn't one of the reasons nobody tried to depose the North Korean dictators the resulting refugee crisis that would overwhelm the South?

South and North. Neither S. Korea, China, or even Russia really want to deal with it.

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I don't think there are any refugees itt

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Ligur posted:

A good article about the Refugee Crisis - why i cry myself to sleep at night:

A shorter piece NYT - A New Wave of Migrants Flees Iraq, Yearning for Europe

Hmm

quote:

BAGHDAD � Having sold his car for $4,600, and then some of his wife�s jewelry, and having loaded his smartphone with photographs of his five children, all that was left for Haider Abdella to do was say goodbye.

�From yesterday to today, we are crying,� he said.

His mother sat next to him on the couch, sobbing. �He�s never left me before, from when he was a child until now,� she said. �How can I bear him leaving?�

Mr. Abdella, 42, a police officer, had never left Iraq � never even seen the sea. But last week, he was on a plane to Istanbul, and from there traveled to the coastal resort city of Izmir, Turkey. A day later, he was on a smuggler�s boat to Greece, crying and praying over the phone with his family left behind in Baghdad. By the weekend, he told them, he was well on his way to Germany.

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quote:

For now, he has been using the Viber app to communicate with his family in Belgium, where they are living in a migration camp.

With the journey behind them, his family is adjusting to life in exile, and to the little differences between life there and life here. Meal timing has been one jarring change for his family in Belgium, Mr. Azzawi said.

There, breakfast is served at 7 a.m. �That is too early for us,� he said.

Dinner is at 6 p.m. �We like to eat at 10,� he said.

The food itself is sometimes strange. His family sends photographs of their meals. One showed what looked to be a pile of lasagna with a dollop of mayonnaise. �They didn�t eat it,� he said. �They don�t know what it is.�

He sends them back photographs of their favorite Iraqi dishes, �to make them jealous.�

Those monsters.

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