European migration? How a continent is sealing itself off | DW Documentary
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Published 2024-06-06
This documentary by Julia Rech and Ulf Röller accompanies EU Home Affairs minister Ylva Johansson from Brussels on a trip to Berlin. Johansson is trying to get an EU pact on immigration approved. She speaks with Nancy Faeser, and visits the Tegel refugee shelter in Berlin that is filled to the brim with more than 4000 refugees.
Hans Leijtens is the executive director of Frontex. His job is to secure the EU’s borders and prevent even more refugees from drowning in the Mediterannean, and to prevent pushbacks. The film team follows him on a Frontex mission off the coast of Greece.
The documentary also shows the places the refugees depart from, as they flee towards Europe. Tunisia is a vital transit point and the focus of much of the EU’s efforts. The EU wants a deal: where Tunisia stops and sends back refugees, and fights smuggling. In return, the EU would send money and equipment, and provide training. How would this be possible without violating human rights? In Albania, Prime Minister Rama is planning to help the EU with the inflow of migration. Albania wants to house refugees in reception centers, while it’s being decided whether they are welcomed into Italy and the EU, or turned away.
Najib Mohabib, a young Afgan, lives in Bosnia. His fate is one typical of many refugees. His brother drowned off the coast of Croatia while attempting to flee to the EU. Najib Mohabib is now stuck in Bosnia on his way towards the EU, but refuses to give up his dream of starting a company in Germany.
Europe wants to seal itself off - The documentary by Julia Rech and Ulf Röller depicts how difficult such a thing will be without betraying the rule of law.
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All Comments (21)
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Most of these guys are economic migrants, not refugees
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The purpose of refugee conventions is to save lives temporarily, not for permanent immiggration.
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I am an EU citizen and I demand that our politicians SHUT THE BORDERS for good. Not a single illegal person who doesn't want to assimilate into our society will be let in!
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They are not refugees!!!!!
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Sealing off? Where? Have you seen what London or Paris looks like now? They are not European cities anymore.
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DW just miss again the point telling us what we are well aware of. Who are these people? Fleeing what? From which countries in Africa? What can Europe do for those countries so they do not produce waves of migrants? What can be offered to the camps so they can be productive and maybe self sustaining? Are there new experiences on refugee’s camps? What kind of illusion are these people seeking? Please, get serious on this theme. We do not need more clichés
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No muslims, no Africans. Get real, Europeans. You got to be more direct than being nice.
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This documentary seems so one-sided, designed mainly to elicit sympathy for African dreamers rather than spark problem-solving ideas to improve what has become a real and significant challenge in Europe. What is driving people from Africa? What is being done in Africa to improve life in Africa so that people can and want to stay there? It is so easy to blame Western countries for the sorrows of the world (this video is case-in-point) - I challenge DW to think harder about what and how to report.
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"European values abandoned in the desert." Oh, cry me a river.
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There were 250 million people living in Africa in 1950. The expectation is that there will be 4 billion people in africa in 2100. If 1 million people move to Europe each year, this will not solve the poverty problem in Africa. The number of people living in poverty will only be bigger, and Europe will have a segregation problem.
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Asylum should be stopped for economic migrants
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“And the losers are the migrants” - well, lady.. shouldn’t the priority be the people that already live in Europe? 😢
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THEY are the future ? ! ? Dream ? More like nightmare !
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Potential for what?...And where?... Here in Europe we strugle to make ends meet aswell, do these people think that money fall off the trees round here????... Because of this mass migration our rent prices have gone thru the roof and our lives became tougher...We need to stop this flow of people, no matter what!!!
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DW you should make documentary on how Europen citizens life has suffered due to uncontrolled immigration from their countries with paying thousands to smugglers and they what European dream when EU citizens life in big cities becoming nightmare, STOP over sympathy for there people and start to care for taxpayers and their life and society are destroyed by having to see this people in our neighborhoods
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Deport now
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No more! Go home!
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Imagine if all these people stayed to improve their own countries. Not everyone in the world can move to the west. Resources are finite. Building a society they want should be the priority.
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I DONT WANT TO BE RIGHT OR TO BE WRONG I WANT MY BORDERS TO BE CLOSED
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They went to europe because they arr dreaming of prosperity. But once they were settled in they want to change it back to where they came from. A system once made them suffered 😂😂
