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DESCRIPTION:In 2015 over 1.3 million people applied for asylum in Europe. They were 
 escaping violence, conflict, religious or ethnic discrimination and 
 poverty. Roughly half of the asylum seekers came from Syria, Afghanistan 
 and Iraq, where war and violence caused hundreds of thousands of people to 
 flee their homes. \n\nThis surge of refugee arrivals in Europe in 2015 is 
 part of what is often called the European Refugee Crisis. To reduce the 
 number of arrivals, the EU instituted policies that make it as difficult as 
 possible for asylum seekers to reach the continent. There are illegal and 
 violent pushbacks, reduced search-and-rescue budgets, criminalization of 
 NGO’s and outsourcing of border control to organizations with abysmal 
 human rights records such as Libyan militias. The refugees who overcome 
 these obstacles have to spend years living in inhumane refugee camps for 
 years awaiting the results of their asylum processes. \n\nRichard is a 
 professor at San Francisco State University. He has worked with refugees on 
 the Greek islands of Lesvos and Samos, in the forests along the Balkan 
 Route and on the rescue ships Sea Watch and SOS Humanity in the Central 
 Mediterranean. He is the author of The Other Side of the Wall: An 
 Eyewitness Account of the Occupation in Palestine. His work has appeared in 
 Al Jazeera, Huffington Post and other news outlets. His website is 
 richardhardigan.com.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/27/18858567.php
SUMMARY:The European Refugee Crisis, presented by Richard Hardigan
LOCATION:1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/27/18858567.php
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