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1. Why migration?
Migration is when people decide
to move from one country to
another to live
In recent years immigration has increased drastically

2. WHAT ARE THE REASONS?
POLITICAL
ECONOMICAL
NATURAL DISASTER
RELIGIOUS
CRIMINAL
EDUCATION

3. Economical: escaping poverty, searching for
work and better conditions of life
Political: escaping persecution, wars,
oppressions and totalitarism.
Religious: impossibility to practise their own
religion
Natural disaster: tsunami, floods, earthquakes
and famine
Criminal: escaping law and justice
Education: getting a better education

4. Who are refugees?
Every day more than 32200 men, women and children are forced
to leave their country looking for refuge somewhere near or far
from their home.
They are refugees and migrants coming from countries plagued by
years of war, violence and poverty.
women
17%
men
58%
children
25%
women men children

5. Where do they came from ?
They came from:
Siria (50%) ; Afghanistan (13%) ; Eritrea (8%) ;
Nigeria (4%);
Somalia (3%) ; Pakistan (3%) ; Iraq (3%) ; Sudan (2%);
Gambia (1%) ;
Bangladesh (1%)

6. How dangerous is the journey?
More than 3770 refugees and migrants have died this year trying
to cross the Mediterranean Sea in overcrowding rubber dinghies or
unsafe fishing boats. Most died on the crossing from north Africa
to Italy and more than 800 died in the Aegean crossing from
Turkey to Greece.

7. What about unaccompanied refuge children?
Unaccompanied
children are the
neediest kind of
refuge but Europe
hasn’t done nearly
enough to provide
proper houses for the
90000 refugees
children that travel
without their parents.
They want look after
themselves. They
need help.

8. Where do the migrants and refugees go?
Migrants are people
that escape from their
countries because of
the poorness, politic
problems, the war or
because they want a
better life. They arrive
in Italy, Corsica,
Greece, Hungary, but
most of them choose to
claim asylum to other
countries.

9. The most affected European
countries are: Sweden,
Norway, Finland, Germany,
Switzerland, Luxenbourg,
Malta, Poland, Spain,
Portugal, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Austria, Romania
etc.

10. Italy is famous for hospitality and kindness
The Italians won’t refuse the migrants
Their boundaries are always open

11. Over the past three years, half a million boat people have arrived
in Italy. They usually enter in our country by the Lampedusa
Island with boats without an entry visa and in a very poor
condition.

12. They are immediately identified and sent in hotels or
villages in order to be fed, receiving money from the
government every week.

13. Once they have arrived, they usually do jobs that
people in the host country don't want to do...

14. ...and frequently they work longer hours and for
lower salaries

16. It’s necessary to develop intercultural
strategies which involve the interaction
between cultures, exchange and
comunication , so that the individual
recognizes and accepts the diversity of
the other person. This is INTEGRATION !