Familiennachzug: Kinder und Frauen stranden in Griechenland

Situation von Frauen und Kindern aus der Sicht von Dorothee Vakalis, ehemalige Pfarrerin der
deutschen Gemeinde in Thessaloniki.

Children and women in the procedure of family reunification from the point of view of a volunteer Thessaloniki, 3/6/2016

Since autumn 2015 the majority of the refugees in Greece are women and children. Unicef just reported that there are more than 22.000 children among 55.000 refugees in Greece, and around 2000 unaccompanied children. This fact is obviously related to the way, how politicians handled the issue of family reunification. As soon as the German government debated about suspending family reunification with the countries of origin, the more children and women arrived at our facilities in Greece – that’s no coincidence. At least they made it to a European country like Greece where the Dublin procedure is still working. A lot of refugees had feared that they would not be able to follow and to join again the ones, who already had left their home country and arrived in Europe.

Weiter hier: D. Vakalis Rede Mai 2016