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Where do the world's refugees come from?

For more than 3 decades Afghanistan has been the largest source of refugees. By mid-2014, there were in fact more than 3 million refugees from Afghanistan.

Syria has become the second largest refugee group with 2.7 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate.

Somalia is the third largest source of refugees with 1.1 million people, followed by Sudan.

• About 250 million children live in countries where there are ongoing conflicts.
• 52% of the 59.5 million people that are forced to leave their home because of war and persecutios are children.
• They mostly come from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
• In 36% of the cases we talk about children who live in conflict zones.
• 3.500 migrants died during the journey across the Mediterranean sea in 2015, 30% were children.
• Most of them were from Syria , Afghanistan and Iraq and under 10.
• In the same year 1 million refugees arrived in Europe and 270.000 (27%) were children. They are from Afghanistan (18%), Syria (25%), Kosovo (10%) and Iraq (6%).
• In 2015 15.000 children arrived in Italy and 180.000 in Greece.
• According to Europol 10.000 children were unaccompanied and disappeared after their arrival.

Migrants in numbers

Children

Where do migrants come from?

More than 50 million people have been forced to leave their countries due to conflicts and persecutions. Half of them are children.

Oleg comes from Ukraine

Hana comes from Syria

Chuol comes from South Sudan

Syria

Syria

In 1918, France was given control over Syria. France controlled Syria until 1946. That year Syria became independent.

Syria was part of the United Arab Republic with Egypt in 1958-1961 and it was at war with Israel in the following years.

In 2012 with the Arab Spring a violent civil war began against President Bashar Al Assad.

The population of Syria is 74% Sunni, 12% Alawi, 10% Christian, and 3% Druze

Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Libya

Afghanistan has only been a republic between 1973 and 1992 and from 2001 onwards. Before 1973, it was a monarchy. From 1992 to 2001, during the civil war, the country was recognized as the Islamic State of Afghanistan and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Pashtuns constitute 40% of Afghanistan's population and they largerly dominate Afghan politics. Tajiks are the second largest ethnic group.

What is a refugee camp?

What is the difference between a refugee, a migrant and an asylum seeker?

Libya

Under the rule of Qaddafi, Libya was an authoritarian state. Qaddafi’s original revolutionary cabinet was replaced in 1977 by the General People’s Committee. The secretary of the General People’s Committee served as the head of government. Following the 2011 uprising, a transitional council made up of opposition forces assumed leadership. Insecurity and factional rivalries soon became the main obstacles to the establishment of a stable permanent government.

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees. In 2012 the average-sized camps housed around 11,400 people. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organisations. There are also official refugee camps where refugees are largely left without support of goverments or international organisations.

Refugee camps generally develop with the aim of meeting basic human needs for a short time. Due to crowding and lack of infrastructures, some refugee camps can lack hygienic standards and this usually leads to a high incidence of infectious diseases and epidemics.

Somalia

The fate of the vast flow of people heading from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe may depend on what we call them, even if the definitions are now becoming blurred.

According to the United Nations, a refugee is “a person fleeing armed conflict or persecution”. Migrants "choose to move not because of direct threat of persecution or death, but mainly to improve their lives by finding work, or in some cases for education, family reunion or other reasons”.

The terms asylum-seeker and refugee are often confused: an asylum-seeker is someone who says he or she is a refugee, but whose claim has not yet been evaluated.

In mid- 2014 there were more than 1.2 million asylum-seekers.

Somalia

After decades of civil war and the collapse of the central government in 1991, Somalis and international supporters have made progress since 2012 in re-establishing state structures and bringing stability to the country. The African Union and the United Nations are now improving security and countering al-Shabab, a violent extremist group

Me siento como en casa cuando...

The video you are going to watch has been completely designed by the students of 2°CL.

You will see some of us reading out loud phrases that describe how and when we feel at home. Some photos have been added to show different ways of feeling at home around the world. Since we are currently attending a Linguistic High School and we are studying several languages, we thought it would be a good idea to use them all.

IMMIGRATION = people

IMMIGRATION = we are all involved

IMMIGRATION = organizations

Our interview with a volunteer

(Save the Children)

Save The Children is the biggest independent organization for children.

As the name says, they save children's lives and they promote children‘s rights. Save The Children is composed by Save The Children International and 30 member organizations working in around 120 countries.

Date of establishment: December, 14th, 1950

Established by: United Nations General Assembly

UNHCR is a worldwide operating organizaton that deals with issues regarding migrants, political crises and wars. It is affiliated to the UN

Our interview with

a volunteer

(Centro Baobab - Roma)

Il Centro Baobab di Roma è un centro di accoglienza per migranti. Completamente auto-finanziato è stato attivo per 6 mesi, soprattutto durante l'estate 2015 quando si è verificata a Roma l'emergenza migranti. Il centro Baobab ha accolto e sfamato circa 30.000 migranti. Il 6 Dicembre 2015 il Centro Baobab è stato sgomberato e chiuso per problemi legati alla proprietà del locale.

Here are some of the main organizations involved in the immigration issue

Everyone is someone

Ognuno è qualcuno

Mappa multimediale sul tema dell’immigrazione

IMMIGRATION = new words

Credits

Its origins

What is ISIS?

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As a proper organization ISIS was created around 2003 but we have only known it since 2014, when they stopped cooperating with Al-Qaida.

From 2014 on ISIS has gained power and started to conquer the surrounding territories, causing tremendous conflicts.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a terrorist group, currently active in these two countries. Its chief is Abdu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

It has now become a caliphate in the controlled territories. Daesh is an Arabic acronym meaning Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham.

Interviste

Progetto grafico

Redazione

Ricerca Immagini

Traduzioni

Emanuele Salonico

Jurij Bruci

Mario Romero

Enrico Giordano

Leonardo Petrangeli

Giulia Marchetti

Giaime Ricci

Emanuele Salonico

Jurij Bruci

Claudia Astori

Giulia Gerini

Vanessa Pompucci

Chiara Gianni

Irene Placido

Tenaye Trovalusci

ISIS or DAESH

Silvia Baglioni

Maya Carugno

Camilla Mecozzi

Fabiano Pezzulo

Gianluca Raco

Flavia Ercoli

Giulia Colangeli

Valerio Lunadei

Matteo Ziviello

Logo

Christan Tagliente

Hanno collaborato le docenti

Riprese Video

IMMIGRATION

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escaping from ISIS

Online Resources

Alessia Mammaro

Giacomo Luchetti

M.Irene Armati

Daniela Diano

Fabrizia Dondini

Rita Latini

Antonella Lombardi

Maria Teresa Pagella

Musica: L. Einaudi, Berlin Song

Ideazione e coordinamento del Progetto

Raffaella Sanna Passino

What are they fighting for?

Where are they based?

Classe 2°CL (a.s. 2015-16)

Liceo Classico e Linguistico Aristofane, Roma

ISIS has seized a large portion of eastern Syria and parts of northern and western Iraq. This group is considered a terrorist organization by the UN and by many of the world's countries. They are now fighting to take control over Libya, Turkey and Lebanon.

The main reason why they are creating such an enormous tension all over the world is that they want to gain control over the territories in the Middle East. They conceal it beneath religious reasons, but in truth they just want oil and natural gas, energy sources of which the underground is rich.

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