Why do people migrate? by Teacher Academy

Isabel Cachada

isabelcachadaber — 2017-03-27 14:26:21 UTC

When nothing matters beyond the preservation of our life, everything stops making sense; The house, the money, the car etc. Here are the migrants who, with one last hope, leave everything and go into the unknown to try to preserve their most important assets: the life of their family and their own life, even if they have to face death.

Mara, Italy

mara_mosca77 — 2017-03-27 15:13:10 UTC

Persecution, wars, poverty, insecurity, these are only few of the reason why people leave all that they have and risk their lives to reach a different country with a different language to start a new life. In the town where I work, we are quite lucky because newly arrived migrants choose it to find a better job and save money. The country where they come from is not in war but it is poor. So parents want to offer a better future to their kids.

Chiara P. - Italy

chiara_possamai — 2017-03-27 17:29:00 UTC

People migrate for many reasons. They migrate to the war, for the climate, for work, for health, for love, for a better life. The people migrate, leaving their homeland in the hope of a better future.

Giuseppe , Italy

2017-03-27 17:33:44 UTC

The brother of my grandfather , Antonio , emigrated in Usa in 1906. Without work with English knowledge below zero. Now we ha ve to make cutural efforts to afford the situation

Bea- Spain

b_nieto_ou — 2017-03-27 18:01:20 UTC

Wars, work and economics reasons, to have a better life, love... We only have to think about our owns thoughts about this possibility

Rosa L. - Italy

2017-03-27 19:24:00 UTC

People migrate in order to live a better life: sometimes to improve their own economic situation, sometimes to avoid war, persecutions and death, in any case we shouldn't forget that is not simple leaving people you love and things you have to face the unknown. To migrate is a tough decision

Tina_Gr

tinamellos — 2017-03-27 19:29:42 UTC

War, financial reasons (a better working position, a more descent way of living and working), the opportunity to explore own's limits, to find out more about the civilization of other nations, a nomadic lifestyle, are some of the endless reasons people migrate

CHRISTOS GREEC

christos_chachoudis — 2017-03-27 19:45:54 UTC

WAR, FINANCIAL REASONS, THE OPPORTUNITY OF A BETTER LIFE ARE SOME OF THE MIGRATION REASONS. I THINK THE MOST CRUCIAL REASON TO MIGRATE IS WAR... NOW THE SITUATION IN MY COUNTRY IS RATHER NOT FRIENDLY EVEN FOR GREEK PEOPLE. THE ECONOMIC CRISIS HAS MADE MANY YOUNG PEOPLE TO MIGRATE TO OTHER COUNTRIES BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY JOB FOR THEM HERE IN GREECE . EVEN ME I MAKE SERIOUS THOUGHTS ABOUT GOING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY IN ORDER TO FIND A WELL PAID JOB, BECAUSE I AM SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AND I DONT HAVE A REGULAR JOB. I THINK WE HAVE AT FIRST TO TAKE A SERIOUS CARE ABOUT THE REFUGEES AND THEIIR FAMILIES AND ESPECIALLY THE CHILDREN. THIS SHOULD BE OUR FIRST CAUSE. THANKS.

Pietro-Italy

2017-03-27 20:40:13 UTC

People migrate when they really have nothing to fall back on, they feel like being deprived of their dignity, identity and the prospect of a fair life. Poverty and wars are two of the main reasons to flee a turmoiled country, people escape from the lack of hope to find a better future. Here where I live in the south of Italy refugees come from North Africa, the arrive in fishing boats risking their lives, the are desperately seeking a job, a shelter, claiming a future that all countries should assure to its citizens.

Monica, Italy

moni_fornelli — 2017-03-27 21:33:47 UTC

They migrate because of political problems, civil conflicts, any type of danger. They fly away from dangerous places to find a shelter abroad, to give to themselves an opportunity to improve their way of living. In the town in which I teach my school is constantly in contact with many associations both religious and laic which host refugees and all kind of foreign people coming here to find a job or simply to have a chance to renew their lives.

Ana, Portugal

acfilipe36 — 2017-03-27 23:49:32 UTC

MIGRATION is the movement of people from one place to another. Migration may be international (moving between different countries) or internal (moving within a country, often from rural areas to urban areas). In this article, we consider the impacts of migration on the individual, the place left by the migrant and the place the migrant receives. We also consider the internal and external determinants of migration.
There are more people migrating nowadays than at any other time in human history. Migrants travel in many different ways and for many different reasons. People move to improve their standard of living, to provide better opportunities for their children, or to escape poverty, conflict, and hunger. Nowadays, with modern means of transportation and communication, there are more people motivated to move and able to do so.

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-03-28 07:23:49 UTC

People migrate for various reasons: war, political situation, financial reasons, prosperity in general.

Claudia Renda, Italy

claudiarenda — 2017-03-28 09:10:53 UTC

The situation of migrants is drummatic. We can't forget that they find a better life. School, Europe states, politics with system vision "must" open mind

Francesco Coppola, Italy

fscocoppola — 2017-03-28 11:34:07 UTC

Last staistics of IDOS show that decreases the immigration for job and family and increase for security reasons inputs (request for asylum, subsidiary and humanitarian protection, arrival of unaccompanied minors and vulnerable persons in need of protection)
They were 153,842 migrants saved at sea and landed in Sicily and among them 4,070 unaccompanied foreign minors.
in 2015 permits for asylum and humanitarian protection accounted for 28.2% of total permits issued during the year, while they were just 3.7% in 2007.
At the same time it has greatly reduced the incidence of permits issued for work reasons, passed in the same period from 56.1% to 9.1%.
Adapted from “Immigrazione e presenza straniera in Italia” care of “ Centro Studi e Ricerche IDOS”, 2017

Natalia, Italy

2017-03-28 11:37:38 UTC

Casian Marian-Viorel, Romania

2017-03-28 12:33:56 UTC

They are forced to migrate for a better life. People migrate for various reasons: war, political situation, financial reasons.

Ekaterini, Poland

katerinaki62 — 2017-03-28 12:48:04 UTC

I will follow Natalia's from Italy post and share the link after her
What I can add is that as as a daughter of a former refugee from Greece I know that my father has been always missing his homeland.

Negative factors at home add to the reasons why people feel compelled to move.Lack of prospects for career advancementPoverty and low incomesHigh unemployment ratesPersecution and poor human rightsInternal conflict and warNatural disasters, climate change and famine

2017-03-28 13:51:33 UTC

Antonella, Italy

antonellacaprarelli — 2017-03-28 14:20:06 UTC

In my experience (I teach Italian to Adult foreign people) they migrate for different reasons: economic (many Indian students come to work in farms for example); to change their lives (some African students for example who are minors); some escape from their country because of the war or totalitarian

Valbona ,Albania

2017-03-28 14:47:14 UTC

There are numerous reasons why people choose to migrate.
1.Youth people who study in foreign countries choose to continue there their livings because is so difficult finding a job here.
2.Parents belive that their children will get better universities in foreign countries.
3.The low incomes and salaries that they get paid .
3.People are disappoint from the government and their promises .
4. There is a tradition in north Albania ,it called revenge , which push people to leave their country

Chiara, ROME

2017-03-28 16:25:13 UTC

So far nearly 171,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Italy this year, surpassing the record set in 2014
The majority of migrants bound for Italy are fleeing poverty, wars and dictatorships in Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan and the Gambia. Syrians no longer use the Libyan route.

The breakdown of law and order has significantly worsened living conditions for foreign workers in Libya since 2011. Many report conditions tantamount to slave labour, while hundreds have been kidnapped for ransom, and sometimes tortured.
SOURCE : UNHCR

Βασιλική Κρικώνη Greece

2017-03-28 16:27:16 UTC

As it has been reported, there are many reason that can force someone to migrate. In order to find a better job, due to political problems and the lack of freedom, even worst, due to war.
All the people who decide to leave their country, are very conscious of the situation.They all have one thing in common. They want a better life for themselves and for their families. Everyone has this right!

Luisa, Torino

2017-03-28 17:03:37 UTC

I believe this picture clearly summarises the reasons why people have always been on the move

Carmela, Sicily

mrscarmela — 2017-03-28 17:04:09 UTC

Before addressing this topic with our students it is useful to get updated information about ongoing conflicts in the world.

Ioanna, Greece

ichalkia10 — 2017-03-28 18:15:18 UTC

Unfairy Tales: The story of Ivine and Pillow | UNICEF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3scOr_d9Dwo
Carly, A Refugee's Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF1HGfg2bSo

Miriam Scafati. Italy

ospedale — 2017-03-28 18:55:44 UTC

People migrate to live a better life: to improve their economic situation, to avoid war, persecutions and death.

Maura - Brescia (Italy)

mauraccia — 2017-03-28 19:32:20 UTC

As I was writing in the previous post, it's very difficult, for me, to investigate the situation of refugees in my area, since there is almost (but I'm going to investigate...) non refugee here, whereas there are many immigrants who are helped, when they arrived, chiefly by their communities. In addition, my province has a lot of association, religious and not religious, who help people in need, but they tend to go to foreign countries, for tradition: for instance, Saint Comboni was born in a village on the Lake of Garda, but in Brescia there are even the Saveriani, who are facing a great crisis (the library of the people has to close, and the Review is not published anymore, and I sorely miss the meeting and the laboratorie for teachers held by them); in my small village, there is the "Resilience" association, but even a volontary group, called Gruppo Malì, but, as I was saying, they help people abroad, so I'll need to investigate the general Italian situation, already well examined by other people (http://www.sprar.it/i-numeri-dello-sprar) . I'd just like to add another reason why people migrate; to give a hope to their ill or disabled children (I've seen a lot of this cases...)
http://www.gruppomaligavardo.it/html/Home.html http://www.assoresilience.it/index.html http://www.comboniani.org/
And I'd like to remember the final section of the exhibition about Immigration I have visited last summer in Berlin ( at the

Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin) with the stories of some immigrants, for different reasons (unfortunately, only few people stopped to watch all the videos...) and the hearthbreaking installation at the Museum of European Cultures http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-europaeischer-kulturen/exhibitions/detail/daheim-einsichten-in-fluechtige-leben.html

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

jennykaroumpali — 2017-03-28 20:21:26 UTC

My parents migrated in Athens, Greece (internal migration) in the 1960’s, in order to find a better job and to have a better quality of life. My sister migrated in the UK for University Education in 1997 and in 2001 she migrated in Switzerland, as she found a good job there.

A famous Greek composer, Mikis Theodorakis (1925-), was a refugee in France during the period 1970-1974 (in the years 1967-1974 there was a dictatorship regime in Greece). Before Mikis Theodorakis flee from Greece he was in prison and his life was in danger, as he was against the dictatorship regime. During his imprisonment he wrote a substantial amount of songs describing his feelings.Here is one of these songs...

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece

jennykaroumpali — 2017-03-28 20:30:01 UTC

During the 1950s and the 1960s a substantial amount of people in Greece migrated in order to find a job (the unemploymant was a very serious problem in Greece in that period). Some song of that period describe this situation. Here is one...

Silvia, Italy

silvietta_68 — 2017-03-28 20:44:14 UTC

The reasons for migrating can be different: poverty, war, persecution.
All motives are united by the desire to have a better life for themselves and for their families.

Vasilis, Greece

vstauropoulos — 2017-03-29 09:29:33 UTC

In my opinion, there is a common element to all migration causes. Something is going wrong in their countries (politically, economically, theologically...). Usually, an external factor, trying to impose his will, upsets the social peace, working together or against a national, social or political team.

Nora, Italy

2017-03-29 09:40:03 UTC

I live in Como, near near the border with Switzerland. Many refugees try to cross the border to arrive in Northern Europe and be reunited with their relatives, but the border is controlled and those who try to cross it is sent back. Many refugees from Africa have remained camped for days in the Como train station, until you have made available to them of prefabricated houses. There are parishes that especially for elderly people, women and children and provide them with food and medical care.

Many reasons can be the cause of migration; it can be a choice or a necessity. For people coming from countries devastated by war, there is no other way. Especially, in the cases of civil war, it is a huge shame that people of the same nation would turn against each other and destroy their own home.

2017-03-29 13:34:54 UTC

Serena A., Ital

dolcefollia79 — 2017-03-29 14:04:24 UTC

The phenomenon of migration may be rooted in:
economic motivations (to escape poverty, to seek better living conditions);work (to find a job, to improve their job);political reasons (dictatorship, persecution, oppression, war, genocide, ethnic cleansing);religious type (inability to practice their religion);natural disasters(tsunamis, floods,
earthquakes, famines);personal reasons (ideological choice, engagement with a resident partner in another country);The criminal type (to escape justice in their country, to avoid a crash);


The majority of migrants arriving in Italy have been forced from their dictatorships and their laws that deprive you of freedom.

Valentina - Italy

valebell80 — 2017-03-29 17:21:13 UTC

It’s very sad to be aware that Western Countries have caused wars in the Arab Countries and North Africa for money and oil, for their own economic interests.

Now we can’t complainourself, built shameful walls and close the doors to desperate people who lived like us.

Until we think only to our benefit, poor people will continue to flee Their country to save himself and try to change the lives of Their children (employment, health, education, freedom, ...)

Ida,Italy

2017-03-29 18:11:06 UTC

Many people migrate from their country because different motives: poverty, war, persecution, work, meet with their families.

Elena, Greece

l_1_doug32_ed — 2017-03-29 21:03:01 UTC

Even if Greece is an intermediate station by migrants from war , poverty, weather disasters, political affiliation, etc. the Greeks themselves migrate for professional rehabilitation and a better life.

Rita

2017-03-29 21:24:27 UTC

The main question is: would we leave all the people we love or all the things we have ?...

It's just too hard to think about children in busy boats or walking kms to find a etter life... facing to violence , cold , no food ...

Rossana, Italy

2017-03-30 07:11:24 UTC

I'm now living in Brindisi, in the south of Italy. Sometimes it arrives a ship full of migrants. Here they get only first aids and hospitality and then they are sent elsewhere. I've just found out that there's an association called Comitato Migranti e Mediterraneo di Brindisi. I'll try to know more about it, if there is a shelter nerby and if they work also we newly arrived migrants.

Željka, Croatia

2017-03-30 09:25:32 UTC

People migrate for different reasons: war, poverty, search for a better life ...

Nalan, Turkey

eney — 2017-03-30 10:28:34 UTC

in my city(Gümüşhane,Turkey) there are 30 Afgan families.they were taken care by volunteers in the city.charities and volunteers help them earn their living.

Adriana, Noci (BA), Italy

2017-03-30 13:48:48 UTC

I realize that since the expansion of the European Union, the most recent wave of migration has been from surrounding European states, particularly Eastern Europe, replacing North Africa as the major immigration area. School has to face this increasingly phenomen and try to improve activities and strategies to meet foreign people in the best way. It's difficult for a child to leave his country, his friends and start living in a new country with a different language and unknown people and places.

Arvin, Italy

2017-03-30 14:03:01 UTC

What all migrants have in common is the attempt to lessen the pressure they perceive in their original environment, whether it is due to economic, social, cultural, or physical threat.
My parents left Iran for Italy 30 years ago because of war and to be able to raise their children in a democratic environment.

Livia, Italy

liviacentonze_lc — 2017-03-30 15:02:18 UTC

People migrate for many different reasons.Some of them choose to migrate, for example to enhance their career opportunities. Some are forced to migrate.

María, Spain

isasama10 — 2017-03-30 18:41:17 UTC

People from all over the world come to the southern coast of Spain to find a better life, but only some of them reach their goal. Because this situation has been going on for some years now, our local authorities provide some basic help to newly arrived immigrants. In addition to this, there are fortunately some local charities which provide emotional and legal support to these persons until they can settle down and adapt to their new lives. Here are some essential links for immigrants in my area:

http://www.aytoroquetas.org/seccion/oficina-municipal-de-inmigracion_355

http://caritasalmeria.es/Proyectos/trabajo-con-inmigrantes/

http://www.cruzroja.es/principal/web/provincial-almeria/migrantes-y-refugiados

Anna Naddeo Napoli- (Italy)

anaddeo19 — 2017-03-30 19:15:01 UTC

My padlet

Rosanna , Italy

2017-03-30 19:29:07 UTC

In my locality there are many refugees, they are helped by an organization that provide to their primary necessity.

Italy, Florence

2017-03-30 19:54:24 UTC

In my area there are few refugees dislocated in the suburbs or in the country. They receive help by the charity association "caritasFirenze" where they can get meals and they get shower together with all the Italian and others migrants that lost their jobs.

Roberta, Torino, Italy

condomittir — 2017-03-31 08:46:34 UTC

The persons migrate for different reasons but they all have in common the research of the serenity (wellbeing meant how to be well).

Nobody leaves superfically the own house, the own family, the own history. If there is has this, that is used hoping to live well/in a dignified way.

To migrate means to be rebuilt, running the risk of losing the own identity. To be foreigners means to be different and, unfortunately, this is equivalent to be dangerous.

Graziella, L'Aquila, Italy

2017-03-31 14:35:18 UTC

I live in Italy and of course I can't ignore this topic.
Many reasons can explain the necessity to migrate. In my town we can see two categories: people who migrate to find a job and to give a better life to their families. The earthquake and the reconstrcution of my town give good job opportunities.
And also refugees from african route, who live their country to survive because of persecution, politic problems. I can't imagine what kind of life they had in Africa, but I can try to imagine it because they crossed Sahara and the sea to arrived here, challenging death.

Migrants are to be considered as a source of diversity and novelty

2017-03-31 15:58:19 UTC

Graziella, Italy

gseminario — 2017-03-31 16:09:49 UTC

I live in a small city in Calabria and the migrates arrived here for differents reasons such as persecution, poverty and to find a job to give a better life to their family.

Sanja, Croatia

2017-03-31 20:33:51 UTC

Refugees suffer beyond our comprehension. After all, now so many people are hopeless and helpless in Greece... Every happy ending is so precious! I want to talk about volunteers who are precious support.
Important links:
1. horror in 2015. - on our border
2. love!
... Croatian Red Cross

...http://www.cms.hr/hr/azil-i-integracijske-politike
...mapping of migrant camps: camp Ježevo, Croatia...

Angeliki,Greece-Thessaloniki

2017-03-31 21:29:33 UTC

First of all I would like to point out that the last video was very informative and enlighting to me. As for the reasons people migrate, I think that the most usual is to discover a better way of living. No one leaves his country which offers him a good job, a quality in his living conditions and numerous opportunities of development either to him or his family. As a country, we know what migration means. To be accurate, especially our grandparents who left Greece in the middle 60s and 70s in order to migrate to Germany, USA and Australia to find a job and "build" better living conditions for their families. Now my country is in the position not only to host a large number of migrants and refugees but also to integrate them in its system. However this number is disproportional to our capability of helping due to our internal economical problems and lack of infrastructures. On the other hand despite the inadequate system, the private initiative plays the most significant role now.

Victoria, Greece

victvoud — 2017-04-01 07:59:12 UTC

The videos were really good, especially the last one. Greece has been in a financial crisis so deep that it faces diffiulties in hosting, let alone integrating refugees in the social and economic terrain. However, it will continue to welcome those people, in the hope that a new (european/international?) policy proves to be more efficient in terms of housing them, educating them, employing them...

Stavroula, Greece

stavroulakod — 2017-04-01 14:47:14 UTC

Very interesting videos. If we look at the reasons for newly arrived migrants to leave their home countries, we will understand them and recognise their rights for a better life and future.

Peppe, Italy (Sicily)

2017-04-01 14:49:19 UTC

First I must say that the videos are really interesting and very informative. Many people to try to improve their living conditions decide to emigrate, to leave their country, their family, their lives. These people hope to find a job and a better life in rich countries. The newly arrived migrants fleeing wars, persecutions, leave their homeland because they are suffering from hunger or serious illness or because in their country there isn't freedom.

Piera, Italy

2017-04-01 16:59:37 UTC

Who migrates does it to improve its own life, to escape from hunger, war, desease,cultural and religious persecution. For them it's not easy leave all they have and go to another place where they don't know how life will be. It's a guess for them, but they do. It will be something better than what they have.

Claudia, Italy

2017-04-01 18:35:00 UTC

Al three videos are very inspiring, I rally think the third one would have a great impact if I showed it in class because it logically analyses the most common prejudices on migrants, especially those based on vicious stereotypes such as them being lazy spoilt people with cell phones who claim to be supported by their host countries without giving anything in return but problems. Well things do not stand that way, but it's not easy to demolish stereotypes and prejudices rooted in people's minds and fed by xenophobia and fear in general. So, very good material. Thank you

Rosa, Portugal

biblioproject17 — 2017-04-01 19:58:51 UTC

There are many reasons for people to emigrate. Reasons of religious, social, political and personal sense. One can emigrate to escape the war, to improve life, to know countries, to join families, or to intervene in the country.

The videos are very inspiring and full of important information. I already shared them on my facebook.

Barbara, Germany

2017-04-01 21:16:19 UTC

Why do people migrate?

The stories that the children have told me differ depending on where they come from.

I will use a few of my pupils as examples.

Boy from Mali – He had to watch his father be beheaded and his mother raped to death. Her last words to him were “run and don’t stop until you are safe”. He crossed the Sahara by foot in a large group of children, crossed the Mediterranean See by boat and walked in the dark to get to Germany. He is traumatized. But, he is doing all he can to stay and get a good job in safety. He was never in school before, he was 14.

Brothers from Syria - They walked from Damascus to Lebanon, flew to Turkey, worked in factories along the way, walked to the see close to Greece, took a boat to Greece, nearly drown, got saved by the Coast Guard and walked to Germany. The trip took 2 years and all the money their parents had. Why did they come alone? It is all their parents could afford. 2 Boys saved from being forced into being soldiers and dying. They miss their parents and sisters terribly, but they must stay to be safe. They were 16 and 15 when they arrived. They hadn't been is school since the oldest was 10.

Girl from Eritrea - Her mother is a single parent with 3 girls. The oldest was hidden by friends as the mother was put in jail. The girl had to promise to go to Europe and start a life in safety. She walked through Ethiopia, Sudan, and Libya. She traveled with a group of women and they were raped several times along the road. Those who refused were killed. She too crossed the Mediterranean See by boat and was delegated to Germany. She is working hard to catch up in school and looking for an apprenticeship.

Girl from Serbia – Her family came with the rush of refugees. They don’t look much different than the Syrians. The family took the chance because the older sister is handicapped and they couldn’t afford her medicine or care. It is the only solution they could find to help the older sister live without pain and in dignity.

Boy from Bulgaria – His parents have jobs that pay well. There weren’t any jobs for them in Bulgaria. He doesn't want to be in Germany and refuses to learn the language.

Myself – I fell in love and chose to stay in Germany because my husband would never move to America. It was the only way to stay together. He refuses to speak English, so I had to learn German.

I visited some of the pupils in the buildings that they were staying in. Very close quarters, loud, no privacy and not welcoming. But they are making the best of the situation.

George Kyriakopoulos (Greece)

2017-04-02 01:29:49 UTC

I was really amazed by the simplicity of the video on syria's migration issue.
It was really well explained. I strongly believe that only through collaboration and mutual understanding can we move further into solving theis problem

Ioanna, Greece

gioanna2015 — 2017-04-02 06:23:33 UTC

The video which explains the European Refugee Crisis addresses some of the most common fears and prejudices of European people. It is our duty to be informed about the situation and background of the migrants and refugees. We cannot afford to be ignorant about an issue that touches us all. We have to remember that we are writing history now.

Livio Luppino

2017-04-02 07:53:00 UTC

I walk with the idea that this is the truth about migration. They're escaping from death, essentially. There are no danger, they're visible, that's all! And this is the reason why lot people are afraid by this. Looking at the numbers, study, reasoning is the way to perceive the high potential of migration, and this is not the first time in the history in which things goes in this way. So, WAKE UP!

Mariapia,Italy

2017-04-02 09:52:16 UTC

I 'm very sad because of the videos...
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about migrants and refugees due to fear and ignorance. Social media play a bad role. Fake sand lies about refugees are continuosly posted...
School is really important in this moment. We have to teach the truth!

Eleni, Switzerland

eleni_mousena — 2017-04-02 13:01:16 UTC

People migrate for different reasons such as war, poverty, cultural and religious persecution. In Greece, there are a lot of shelters and hotspots for the refugees but unfortunately they are not large enough to accomodate all these people and they are unsafe and have inadequate hygiene. In Switzerland, where we (me and my family) moved for a better living, the majority of the residents (Geneva area) come from all over the world but everything is well-organised and we feel safe and welcome.

Chiara Semplicini, Italy

chiara_semplicini — 2017-04-02 15:25:31 UTC

People migrate for many different reasons. We are living very hard times, the number of migrants due to wars and persecution is rapidly increasing. This is the reason why we must be ready to integrate these persons in our society. Unfortunately, in Italy politicians and media had a bad influence on the population. Indeed, Italians are becoming more and more racist. I hope in a better future, with more open-mindedness and intercultural understanding/acceptance in my country.

Alessandra Gallina - 1.3 Why do people migrate ?

scrocchia67 — 2017-04-02 15:57:19 UTC

Would you leave your mother country if you had nothing behind you? No opportunities? Yes, I definitely would. Let's think about our Italian migrants at the beginning of the last century...So many of them left Italy and expecially south Italy to find a new life for them and their children. They didn't live a good life at the beginning! They were isolated and treated badly the same way today we treat many of the desperate who are flying away from war, atrocities, tortures, hunger, poverty and also bad health problems. People are good and bad everywhere, there's good and bad in everyone , but we can change the world if we unite and be together. Let's start from children, for example!

Clara, Italy

clarag — 2017-04-02 16:56:01 UTC

I'm from Sicily and I live and work in Northern Italy from 10 years. If I lived in a country affected by war, politic crisis, no opporunities to live happily with my family, I would have done many kilometeres more! I think that the most important concept the world needs nowadays is a great sense of humanity. After centuries of struggles for civil rights, the world is now collapsing down a pyramid of prejudices.

Maria Intrieri, Rome-Italy

mri5 — 2017-04-02 17:16:21 UTC

Italy is the 2nd country in Europe more involved in immigration problem. The geographical condition but also the Italian culture traditionally have always been attractive elemnti towards foreigners. However, currently the average Italian sentiment is changing, perhaps acusa the severe economic crisis we are going through or even for the crisis of idealism politically motivated. The qualunqulismo, populism, the recovery of Nazi ideologies are the basis of the true problem involving immigrants. Surely the problem is very complex and should be addressed jointly by all countries euopei. This would involve upstream idea of united Europe not only in economic terms, but ethical, moral, legal. All aspects that unfortunately at present are far from the reality that we live.

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-04-02 19:30:56 UTC

In Italy this topic is really "hot" and there are a lot of prejudices. Italians are usually a hospitable and friendly people, although in recent times financial crisis and corruption made racism get growing.
So the role of school is fundamental, because it has to teach the truth and sensibilizing students to a culture of acceptance. The videos let me think that it could be easy, also starting from some simple questions like "Would you abandon your country, friends and home if you stay well or do not risk?". Also the third video is really impressive, easy to understand, it can help destroying false believes.
With financial crisis many italians think that migrants are stealing our job or that State is spending too much for their care. The problem is also connected to corruption. Some politicians keep for themselves public money destinated for migrants: so migration care system is a big business. And then there are parties who try to gain consensus through racial programmes.
Information and empathy could be the two ways to educate our students.
I found many information on the website of the committee UNCHR for Southern Europe.
Here there are some stories about migrants https://www.unhcr.it/news/storie
Here some numbers about the year 2016
https://www.unhcr.it/risorse/carta-di-roma/fact-checking/gli-sbarchi-italia-nel-2016-dati-smentire-lallarmismo

Maria Intrieri, Rome-Italy

mri5 — 2017-04-02 19:35:47 UTC

Zoi, Greece

zetakoli — 2017-04-02 21:42:44 UTC

The immigration in Greece seems to be a crucial problem for a country that suffers from an economical crisis. Apart from the political issue the educational frame seem to be the most important after the every day life problems that face the immogrants. Their stories are very different and will be a great mistake to group them as one. A great number of them came from Syria because they were afraid for their lives. Some other came from Afganistan and Pakistan because of the civil wars.

Pedro Fragoso, Portugal

2017-04-02 23:13:11 UTC

The desert , the sea…

What more we have to see?

From the war refugee

From the starving

Persecuted, claiming liberty

Miserable salary

Walking hard rails…

Human design…

Search for a better live

Zvonimira, Croatia

2017-04-03 10:09:04 UTC

People migrate for many reasons, today the war is one of the biggest reasons. However people feel socially and economically insecure in their own country so this is another reason for emigration.

Gianluca Marano - Italy

Gianluca_Marano — 2017-04-03 10:58:51 UTC

In my country there are more than three hundred refugees and in the provincial capital only 10, need more attention from the relevant forces to operate in a fair allocation of migrants. disproportionately dividend is likely to blow up all the schemes.
People migrate for the chance to live a dignified life outside of their homelands

Cinzia, Rome

2017-04-03 13:46:51 UTC

Everyday I see on the tv news about the newly arrived migrants. Most of them arrive in Southern Italy, Sicily above all and then cross the coutry passing by Rome or Florence or Milan then going in some other countries such as France. They are received locally by many organisations, for exemple Croce Rossa, by the churches and by local organisations that receive funds in order to help them.

Solange Delicado, Portugal

sdelicado — 2017-04-03 16:21:27 UTC

Everytime I watch these videos or news on TV about the newly arrived migrants, I can’t stop thinking that these thousands of people should be so deseperate to risk lives this way … I think we can hardly imagine.
Portugal is a final destination for these migrants and many of them don’t want to stay here, their ai mis to go to Germany or other nothern country. The situation is much more difficult in Greece, Italy or even Turkey or Spain, due their geographic situation. People has always migrate in seek of a better life, economically and socially speaking, new opportunities or escape from political or religious persecutions. But, nowadays, the numbers are huge …
Portugal has always been a country of migrants, actually we started back in the 15th century. During the Salazar regime, the Portuguese economy was almost stagnant. Between 1960 and 1970 many Portuguese immigrated especially to France and Germany. Political opponents to the government were forced to seek refuge and asylum abroad. In 1961 a guerrilla war seeking independence from Portugal started in African territories under Portuguese rule. The colonial war lasted 13 years. The fascist regime and the colonial issue led Portugal to a gradual international political isolation. The long period of authoritarian rule under Salazar (1933–74) saw few refugees settle in Portugal. The end of Salazar’s rule led to many Portuguese returning from former colonies in Africa. Migration flows in Portugal have a notable variability over the last few years. There was significant increase in the foreign population between the years 2000 and 2010. Migratory outflows remained constant until 2008, when they had a remarkable growth; Portugal received people from Kosovo, Ukraine, Russia, Moldavia, Romania, China, Brazil, as well as several thousand people who fled the civil war in Guinea-Bissau.

The influx of refugees and migrants into the E.U. that peaked during 2015 exposed the limits of European solidarity. Among the countries that stepped up in support of front-line states overwhelmed by new arrivals was Portugal. While some members erected border fences and sought to sabotage a scheme to relocate refugees from Greece and Italy, Portugal volunteered to resettle up to 10,000 people. This initiative came in spite of the country’s debt crisis that necessitated a painful financial bailout.

Fatima,Bosnia and Herzegovina

fatimaklicic — 2017-04-03 17:58:17 UTC

People are migrants because of many reasons: fleeing war, bad economic situation or because of their own political views that are different

Paola. Ital

paolcro — 2017-04-04 05:23:05 UTC

Many people leave their homeland for various reasons: war, religion, politics. The refugees leave everything: family, friends, all they had to look for a better future, and especially to avoid dying. To accept it is a moral duty and integrate it even more. To do this, an important role should be taken by the school has to explain the reasons why people leave their land and dispel any rumors that are mistakenly called for a climate crare not inclusive and sometimes terror. We could try to ask the kids what they would do in their place and make them think

Andreea, Sweden

2017-04-04 17:11:59 UTC

I am an immigrant in Sweden so I already left everything behind. People choose to move to other countries for many reasons but all want the same thing: to have better living conditions and to offer a better life to their children.

Bento, Porto

2017-04-04 21:54:32 UTC

My country had a strong emigration during the 60s and 70s, for economic reasons but also to escape the colonial war. In the first decades of the 20th century and in the 19th century we had a strong emigration mainly to Brazil.
It is impressive that in a country of emigrants there is so much reluctance to receive some people with such evident difficulties.

Linda Carlos Ruiz

2017-04-05 07:23:05 UTC

In Finland we are beginning to have more and more undocumented migrants and it's beginning to be a problem. All sorts of activist organisations are arising to help the migrants in difficult situations. The government has made it more and more difficult for the criteria of asylum to be met, and it is considering Iraq and Afghanistan to be safe places to live which is an outrage. The large percentage of applications denied is only adding to the problems. It's a terrible situation, and I am ashamed to say that I think the Finnish government is not respecting human rights any more.

Anna-ITALY

2017-04-05 07:51:46 UTC

I think that the decision to emigrate and live far from their homelands is not due to one reason, but always resulting various causes or a particular set of circumstances. It migrates voluntarily (by choice) or forcibly (for constriction). For reasons economic, demographic, political, cultural. Because of wars, racial conflicts, ethnic and religious or even natural disasters. But the element that unites all the decision to move is the search for better living conditions :

Bianca B, Romania

bbyancka — 2017-04-05 11:35:59 UTC

People migrate because of the poverty, war, religion, politics. They search a new and better life and they nedd to face all kinds of problems: learning a language, getting a job, facing the misconceptions.

Yakup, Turkey

yakupbuyukkaragoz — 2017-04-05 13:50:10 UTC

Migrants and refugees come to my country from syria. State is helping in each case.

Sara Viotti, Italy

2017-04-05 15:36:38 UTC

Refugees come to Italy because of It is a country they can easely reach from Africa or Greece. Their problem is, they can't go to France due to the politics about migration are different.

Yuri, Italy

yurisab — 2017-04-06 13:27:13 UTC

Italy is the where a lot of people coming from Africa and Asia arrive. Not inclusive politics in some countries that live in the southern borders of Europe

Luciana Daniela,Italy

2017-04-06 13:27:21 UTC

In order to carry on this activity I met a volunteer who works in my town with young refugees.She told me
lots of things about her job and the situation of migrants in my area.
I was very surprised to
discover how many Italian people both as volunteers and as employers are involved in this field and how many activities are arranged to accomodate such a numbers of foreign people that everyday arrive on our coasts.

Livia, Italy

2017-04-06 17:01:15 UTC

Migrants and refugees come to my country because of in Thor country the can't gain enough to live, because of wars or politic motvation.

Angela Maria, Italy

2017-04-06 21:40:43 UTC

Why do people migrate?
People migrate because of the poverty, war, religion, politics. Who migrates does it to improve its own life, to escape from hunger, war, desease,cultural and religious persecution. Refugees come to Italy because of It is a country they can easely reach from Africa or Greece. Italy is the 2nd country in Europe more involved in immigration problem.
The videos are very inspiring and full of important information. I already shared them on my facebook.

Alessandra Gallina1.3 Investigation activity in Italy. In my area there are a lot of young black people living nearby. Most of all, they come from the African Continent. In these days I had the chance to meet two active young women who work for different associations here in Lamezia. The first is a social organisation, named Malgrado Tutto, actually running a Centre for extraordinary shelter (CAS in Italian). They welcome young men only, from Mali, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Bangladesh, Iraq, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Camerun and Senegal. The second, Luna Rossa, is a Shelter system for asylum seekers and refugees (SPRAR in Italian); it has been developing into a SPRAR for unaccompanied minors since February 2014. All these associations provide migrants with: 1. Linguistic mediation; 2. Infos on burocratic and legal Italian system for migrants and asylum seekers.

scrocchia67 — 2017-04-07 14:42:22 UTC

Aurora-Italy

aurorpagano — 2017-04-09 06:38:21 UTC

Italy is a country easily accessible from Africa. People migrate because of the poverty, war, religion, politics. Who migrates does it to improve its own life, to escape from hunger, war, desease, cultural and religious persecution. Where I live there are two associations that deal with migrants and refugees.

Foteini-Vassiliki (Vani), Greece

2017-04-10 08:34:30 UTC

Investigations show that refugees leave homelands because of the uncertain, dangerous situations faced there. They are so hopeless that they believe no better days can come in their countries. So the only thing that can empower them to continue being alive is the struggle to reach better conditions away from home.

Ourania, Greece

ranialampou — 2017-04-10 08:35:59 UTC

People have moved from their home countries for centuries, for all sorts of reason. Firstly, they try to escape conflict, violence, poverty and seek superior healthcare. Secondly, they try to find refuge after being displaced due to environmental factors like natural disasters, erosion, and other environmental factors caused by climate change. In some cases, people migrate with the knowledge or hope that more opportunities will be available to them in their particular field than at home. Many people also study abroad to seek out better educational opportunities than are available in their own countries. Parents sometimes make the difficult decision to migrate so their children can benefit from things like superior education and plentiful job opportunities.

Fausto, Catania

2017-04-10 11:09:04 UTC

I must say that the videos are really interesting and very informative. Many people to try to improve their living conditions decide to emigrate, to leave their country, their family, their lives. These people hope to find a job and a better life in rich countries. The newly arrived migrants fleeing wars, persecutions, leave their homeland because they are suffering from hunger or serious illness or because in their country there isn't freedom

Veronica, Belgium

2017-04-11 08:44:19 UTC

People migrate for many reasons: economic, social political and environmental reasons are the most common.
The main difference, I think, is in what is behind the choice to migrate, in other words, if peole choose to migrate or have to.
Thanks to the videos of this module we have a clear and authentic witness of what migration means. Even deeper, what being a refugee means, and why, one day, you are forced to leave your country, your friends, your home, all you had and begin a journey of hope full of uncertainties.

Konstantina, Greece

2017-04-12 07:30:43 UTC

People migrate because of the bad situation they face at their country (war, economical or/and political crisis). Absolutely, it is not something easy and they face many problems in order to leave their country and find a better place. When they find a new country, they have to deal with new problems. Our role, as teachers, is very crucial in order to help those kids integrate in a new school environment.

Ago, Italy

2017-04-12 12:21:16 UTC

But we are sure that in the current migration flows in Europe it is possible to distinguish clearly between political than economic migration?

Maria, Greece

mampla78 — 2017-04-12 15:12:08 UTC

People migrate in order to have a better opportunity for themselves or when they have lost every hope. The last one needs special attention, in order we give them hope, some perspective for their life.

Moschoula,Hellas

mcdouris — 2017-04-12 17:11:13 UTC

People migrate because they can no longer live in their homes. They flee because they cannot survive where they are.
It is a situation anyone can find themselves in, if their country enters turmoil.

Irma, Albania

hoxhairma12 — 2017-04-12 20:44:55 UTC

Albanian people used to migrate based in economic conditions. Now days they do migrate because of better chances related to studies, better jobs. Other people do migrate because of crisis in their countries etcccc

Victoria, Belgium

2017-04-14 12:09:33 UTC

Sofia, Greece

sofsaridaki — 2017-04-17 14:17:51 UTC

The most common reasons for migration are because people are in danger or because they aim at enhancing the quality of their life. More specifically, they leave their coyntry: to escape procecution based on race, religion, political opinions etc, to escape war or conflicts, to seek job opportunities, to study abroad, or to ensure a higher level of wellbeing for themselves and their children.

Maria Grazia G., (Italy)

mariagrazia_caltanissetta — 2017-04-17 15:26:00 UTC

People migrate for many reasons: war, religion, politics, poverty. They risk their lives on raftts to reach the italian coast

Graziella, Lamezia Terme (Italy)

2017-04-18 15:35:53 UTC

In recent years the somatic aspect of Calabria is increasingly taking a multiethnic face. In fact, in the city where I live, Lamezia Terme, immigration has become more consistent, so the city has become a place of stable employment for many immigrants who leave their lands in search of better luck.

Marika Emese Cîmpean (Romania)

cimpean_emese — 2017-04-18 21:35:13 UTC

People migrate because of various reasons: war, political problems, poverty, economical problems, searching for a better life.

Marijana, Croatia

silipa302 — 2017-04-19 09:38:04 UTC

As a young girl I witnessed a war raging in my country. Many of our Croatian people, especially from the Eastern parts of Croatia had to leave their homes. They mainly came to live in other parts of Croatia, but some of them left for other EU countries as well. Most of the returned after war. So, war, famine, low lifestyle, unemployment and other things make people leave their homeland. I am so sad that many Croatian leave for a better life in other EU countries due to lack of work as well.

I must say most of the migrants from Syria, Afganistan and so on went through CRO, our people were very helpful because they know how it is to have no home, to lose everything!

Angela, Italy

2017-04-19 19:45:29 UTC

1.2 Why do people migrate?

People migrate because there are wars, conflicts or poverty in their country or because there are no cures for certain diseases in their country. People migrate because they hope to find a better place to live and grow their children. In many countries that embrace migrants and refugees there are associations that help these people: a charity, a non-governmental organisation, a church or other religious group, an organisation running a shelter or simply a group of active volunteers.

Angela de vito naples

2017-04-19 23:12:39 UTC

People migrate because in their coutries there are problems about political ideals, religion poverty ,war etc

Marialuisa, Brindisi

2017-04-22 16:56:06 UTC

People migrate because in their coutries there are problems about political ideals, religion poverty ,war etc

Mihaela Contescu, Romania

magdacontescu — 2017-04-25 20:44:01 UTC

People migrate because they hope to find a better life in another place.

Betty-Greece

2017-05-08 17:22:35 UTC

No one decide to leave the home and their country without a serious reason. Some people leave their country in order to find a job and can feed their family. After the second war many Greek people went to Germany and leave behind their children in order to work and send money to their children. For this reason Greek people are very sensitive to migrants but as this period is very bad period for Greece the only help that can offer to them is very small. I think that EU needs to be more and to destroy the fence in order these people to unstuck from greece and to find their final destination in order to start their life. We need all to think about the trauma that all this adventrure created to them.

sofia Tsigara, greece

softsigara — 2018-04-11 11:15:55 UTC

Σε ό,τι αφορά τη χώρα μας, το 2017 έφτασαν 29.595 πρόσφυγες, που αποτελεί τον μικρότερο αριθμό τα τέσσερα χρόνια που καταγράφει στοιχεία ο Οργανισμός στην Ελλάδα, επισημαίνει η σχετική ανακοίνωση. Το 2016, περίπου 173.614 πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες είχαν φθάσει στην Ελλάδα διά θαλάσσης, σύμφωνα με τον ΔΟΜ.

2019-03-07 14:28:09 UTC

People migrate for many reasons: war, religion, politics, poverty. They risk their lives on raftts to reach the italian coast

2019-03-07 14:28:12 UTC

People migrate for many reasons: war, religion, politics, poverty. They risk their lives on raftts to reach the italian coast

2019-03-07 14:30:09 UTC

Your avatar Add comment sofia Tsigara, greece sofia Tsigara, greece Σε ό,τι αφορά τη χώρα μας, το 2017 έφτασαν 29.595 πρόσφυγες, που αποτελεί τον μικρότερο αριθμό τα τέσσερα χρόνια που καταγράφει στοιχεία ο Οργανισμός στην Ελλάδα, επισημαίνει η σχετική ανακοίνωση. Το 2016, περίπου 173.614 πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες είχαν φθάσει στην Ελλάδα διά θαλάσσης, σύμφωνα με τον ΔΟΜ. Your avatar Add comment Betty-Greece Betty-Greece No one decide to leave the home and their country without a serious reason. Some people leave their country in order to find a job and can feed their family. After the second war many Greek people went to Germany and leave behind their children in order to work and send money to their children. For this reason Greek people are very sensitive to migrants but as this period is very bad period for Greece the only help that can offer to them is very small. I think that EU needs to be more and to destroy the fence in order these people to unstuck from greece and to find their final destination in order to start their life. We need all to think about the trauma that all this adventrure created to them.