Ahmad F., 31, of Syria, lives in a shared flat with other refugees. The living conditions of Syrian refugees in Germany are very difficult. A large portion of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who arrived in Germany in 2015 are planning to stay in the country for good. Alongside Germany, countries including Greece, Sweden and Austria are top destinations for Syrian refugees who leave the Middle East. Eventually, refugees will be able to leave crowded shelters and move into apartments with their families. One Syrian refugee told a reporter that he and his friends had tried to rent an apartment in a big housing project in Munich and were told the apartment was already leased, but then they asked German friends to apply to rent the same apartment – and they were answered in the affirmative. Five Years After Refugee WaveHow Syrians Are Reshaping German Society. They wanted to recharge their cellphones, or use the residents' phones, he recalled. Source: BAMF, Aktuelle Zahlen December 2019, available in German at: https://bit.ly/3iO0nv8, 3; BAMF, Asylgeschäftsstatistik 12/2019; Federal Government, Response to information request by The Left, 19/18498, 2 April 2020, 4. Nobody has the right to choose where to apply for that status, the minister said, adding that Germany’s goal is indeed to send the refugees back to the first country they reached.Refugees already residing in Germany are facing mounting antagonism, reflected among other things in the refusal to rent them homes, expulsion from homes that they have already rented, difficulties in finding work, and hostility in the street and in shops.Indeed, the European Union’s immigration regulations state that the status of a refugee will be determined by their first port of arrival.
As for refugees in Germany and elsewhere who have come from Syria, the more the Assad regime advances in its quest to regain control of the country, the greater the pressure will be on those who fled to return home, and thus relieve the Continent from what is perceived as a terrible threat to its culture and to the peace of mind of its citizens.The refugees’ delight at the restoration of the reunification policy has been marred, however, by the caveat that Germany will only accept up to a total of 1,000 family members a month. Nahla, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, with her two-year-old daughter Fajer, came to Germany in search of a safer, better life. Flying into Hanover, it's the second group after Luxembourg took in 12.
Country has suspended deporting asylum-seekers from Syria under the EU’s controversial Dublin Regulation Many Syrian refugees are entering Europe via Greece via arduous sea journeys Photo: REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis Germany has quietly stopped enforcing European Union rules under which Syrians fleeing the civil war face deportation, it has emerged, as thousands of migrants continued to […]
But concern arose that newcomers who brought over their families would settle down, and later it would be hard to get them to return home and/or to deny them citizenship.So far around 34,000 family reunification requests have been submitted to German consulates around Europe; tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands more are expected. Parents may bring their children and children may bring their parents, but siblings cannot do so for each other.To minimize opposition to its policy, Germany distinguishes between two types of refugees: political asylum seekers who are entitled to permanent residency; and people who fled because of a civil war, as in Syria, but cannot prove personal persecution, which is a precondition for political asylum.Germany has reinstated its policy of letting refugees from Syria and elsewhere bring over relatives, but pressure to send the migrants home is mountingOne Syrian refugee told a reporter that he and his friends had tried to rent an apartment in a big housing project in Munich and were told the apartment was already leased, but then they asked German friends to apply to rent the same apartment – and they were answered in the affirmative. In addition, a “humanitarian status” (impediment to deportation) was granted in 5,857 cases (4.7%). This is not the reality for refugees who wait years of the approval of their status.