Tag Archives: refugee

The most inspirational and heartbreaking European stories about immigrants

One comment

Have you ever heard about European Press Prize? The award for excellence in journalism is organized every year and journalist from all over the Europe are trying to win it. This year was quite unique because journalists decided to write about really combustible topics and one of them was the immigration crisis. Final ceremony was held in Prague, Czech Republic and it was very emotional. Winners proved their personal courage to inform readers and viewers of the mainstream media about

Read more Escape & Migration

Our European Wishes

Leave a comment

In the context of the refugee crisis we, as a project group of the European Youth Voice, organized an event to raise attention for the current European situation. In the cozy amosphere of making waffles and creating space to chat, we wanted to make people more aware of a perspective how a common European future could look like. For that reason we asked our fellow students to give their personal wishes. Here they are!

Read more Escape & Migration

“We All Are Refugees”

2 comments

WHS president Dr. Bernd Kriegesmann welcomes the discussion participants and audience. It is a fact that the integration of refugees will take years; Europe is just at the beginning of a flood of duties, barriers and – that’s the most important point – opportunities and chances. A current discussion at the Westfälische Hochschule in Gelsenkirchen (WHS), Germany, was called as a reaction on the ongoing changing in the refugee politics. The latest data says that till the end of the

Read more Escape & Migration

The European Market

Leave a comment

Europe is still confronted with the refugee crisis, but there might have been a little change regarding the distribution of migrants. There had been a big argument between Western and Eastern Europe, because the East refused the arrangement of splitting the refugees all over the European countries. “Only” 120.000 are concerned and can’t be sure about their stay in Europe, in comparison: Germany already offered asylum to more than 600.000 people in 2015. But still, in the last couple of

Read more Escape & Migration

The Refugee Bazaar

Leave a comment

In between the small allies the curious onlooker pack down. They came from all over the continent to catch a massive bargain – to demonstrate the other mighty rulers that they are the most powerful. The sales booths are decorated in the most beautiful colors that a sales booth only may look like in your wildest dreams. The presented shimmering goods put a long journey to be part of this extraordinary spectacle. Spectacle is an extenuated description for the atmosphere

Read more Escape & Migration
« Older Entries