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Migrants: From Hope to Frustration in Europe

May 1, 2016

Last year was a year marked by a major migration crisis, which, according to international organizations such as Amnesty International and the United Nations, saw the greatest waves of exodus since the Second World War coming to Europe. Hundreds of thousands fled their war-torn homelands, passing borders under often-dangerous conditions, to reach safety in Europe. The crisis caught the entire world off guard when the number of migrants far exceeded expectations, and even pushed Germany to temporarily suspend implementing the Dublin Agreement that had put in place a strategy to deal with migrants in the European Union’s states decades ago. In fact, the wave of migrants has been so large that there are no accurate statistics about the number of people who arrived at Europe’s doors recently. Now, almost one year after the crisis began, the question being repeated frequently is: Did migrants find what they were looking for in Europe? Although most migrants do not have the option of returning to their homelands, there remains a gap between what they expect from life in Europe and what reality is like, particularly for the youth who hope to start a better…


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