In Sweden and Finland, tech companies help refugees find work
Safinaz Awad went through hell to get to Sweden.
Last year, she
-- along with her mother, sister, husband and infant son -- escaped
Syria and the civil war there that's so far killed nearly half a million
men, women and children. The five crammed into an overcrowded
smuggler's boat for the treacherous crossing between Turkey and Greece
across the Aegean Sea. Two days after reaching Greece, her mother and
sister snuck onto a plane to Sweden, where they could live permanently
if granted asylum.
Awad and her husband, though, feared their
baby would draw too much attention from the authorities. But to leave
legally, they'd need official travel documents -- and the only way to
get those was by registering for asylum in Greece. That's not something
many refugees and migrants want to do because a European law called the Dublin Regulation can force asylum seekers to live in the first EU nation they set foot in.
Read More : Click here
Comments
Post a Comment