A report from Minority Rights Group shows that different countries are welcome to send back refugees. The lack of an integration policy scatters them and condemns them to cultural extinction.
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And here are the testimonies filmed:
London (AsiaNews / Mrg) - The Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries and Western Europe suffer from insecurity and risk losing their identity religious and cultural. A report from Minority Rights Group (MRG), based on interviews with refugees along the whole of 2008, shows that the Iraqi minority groups, who fled their country because of persecution, they find themselves in trouble in Europe, it is extremely difficult to get political asylum, or are being discriminated against. Often they are forced to return home.
According to the UN agency for refugees, nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled their country for the waves of violence that followed the US-led invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Many of them - between 15 and 64%, depending on the country where they found refuge - belong to religious minorities such as Christians, Circassians, Mandaeans, Shabaks, Turkmen, Yazidi.
The major host countries are Syria (1.1 million), Jordan (450,000), Lebanon (50,000), Egypt (30,000), and the U.S. (4700), Sweden (32,120) .
Carl Soderbergh, a member of the Mrg, said that "many European countries [including Sweden and Britain] are rejecting many requests for asylum in Iraq and report on the forcibly displaced, despite the attacks on minorities are rising in some areas. "
Jordan and Syria, despite having received large numbers of refugees, leaving many of them in a sort of limbo, with no residence permit or work. The issue of entry visas has become più difficile dal 2007.
Il rapporto del Mrg mostra le difficoltà che i rifugiati irakeni hanno nella mancanza di una vera e propria politica di integrazione fra i Paesi di accoglienza. Soprattutto minoranze piccole come i mandei o gli shabak, dispersi in moltissime nazioni, rischiano ormai l’estinzione culturale.
Il rapporto è corredato anche di diverse commoventi testimonianze.
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