From Malta to Dresden - Reports of the work with refugees

10:30 a.m.  - 11:30 a.m.              

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Despite years of negotiations about a common European asylum system refugee's quality of life is still highly dependent from the conditions in the receiving state. Especially small states at the border of the EU are unable to cope with the masses of incoming refugees, also because of the other Member State's missing solidarity. Sad to say that because of this it is no rarity that people, who have survived violent excesses in their country and the strains of an escape under the danger of their lives, have to wait  for their asylum procedure for months inside prisonlike admission centers without knowing their legal rights. On top of that many of them have to undergo hostility of the locals and discrimination on the part of administration, the police and the European border surveillants from Frontex. Who thinks that these are problems that couldn't occur in prosperous countries like Germany, should go visit this presentation.                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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Ines Kanzler experienced the lack of administrative care for refugees in various ways as she worked as legal counselor and associate in German asylum centers. Apart from that she visited the isle of Malta for 2 weeks in order to get an impression of the refugee camps down there. Listeners of this presentation can expect an authentic description from the lives of people that commit their work to the protection of help seeking people.