Migration and Integration Fund Web page. “EU States most affectedīy migration and asylum flows can count on solidarity from other EU Through practical cooperation, harmonisation of legislation and the EuropeanĪssurance of help is declared on The Asylum, European solidarity with these EU countries is ensured Some countries face larger strains on their reception capacities andĪsylum systems due to the disproportionally large influxes of asylum-seekers Number of applicants is not equally distributed among EUĬountries. To the European Commission’s Migration and Home Affairs’ Refugee Fund web Richest, which, according to the IRC, is a sad commentary on the EU’s response Has to send staff not just to the poorest regions of the world, but to the The EU’s inability to support Greece means that the IRC Sent an emergency team to Lesvos where thousands of refugeesĬontinue to pour in. The world’s poorest regions, has recently The International Rescue Committee, an NGO that assists refugees of conflict in Simultaneously accentuates the much-needed cooperation and assistance from theĮU and UN and the organizations’ irresolution thereof.Ī boy from Iraq stands with his family at the gate of the registration centre in Kos. The responsibility is insteadįalling to a handful of relief NGOs and individual Greek citizens, which Handle its inordinate number of asylum-seekers. Up to now, Greece has lacked sufficient governance, personnel and resources to The 1990s, Greece has been treated as a resettlement country where documentedĪsylum-seekers would eventually be relocated to the European countries to the north. Seems – to some extent and albeit inconceivably so – minor. However, amid the economic crisis, the refugee crisis Points to a shared responsibility of the EU in assisting Greece with its daily Their hope of starting fresh lies in other parts of Europe, which That said, Greece has long been a transit country,Īnd most refugees and migrants arriving on Greek shores have other destinations And so, for these twenty-firstĬentury refugees, any idea of 'homecoming', of being re-joined with a Is not the case for the majority of Syrians, with differences of ethnicity, In common with Syria, Syrian-Armenians have a place to go. Motherland. Similarly, contemporary Syrians of Armenian heritage, forĮxample, have the right of return to Armenia proper. Some degree of sense, as Greece held the promise of a Linguistic, ethnic, and religious sameness. Sought refuge in the Aegean islands and Hellenic mainland at least shared Last century’s exodus, the Greeks and Armenians (my forebears included) who How Greece recovered last century – refugees notwithstanding.Ī group of migrants walk on the last leg of their crossing from Greece. Was stabilizing, employment was increasing, exports were becoming moreĬompetitive, and ultimately, Greece bounced back. Greece renegotiated terms with creditors,Īnd by 1934, industrial and agricultural production was growing, the drachma Remedy the situation, the League of Nations offered Greece loans, theĬonditions of which included severe austerity measures. Then Greece defaulted on its national debt. Sound Greek refugees were added to Greece’s demoralized population. And Exhausted by wars, debtīondage, the Depression, and oppressive unemployment, approximately 1.3 million This time Greece was in financial straights. In exchange, the Turkish-Muslim population that had been A compulsory populationĮxchange brokered by WWI Allies removed the remaining Greek Orthodox Christians Indigenous to the region were all but expunged. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, culminating with the end of the Greek-Turkish War and theīurning of Smyrna in 1922, Greeks, Armenians, and other minority Christians Marked this time in history as the “Asia Minor Disaster”. Had for thousands of years been home to several million Greeks, several millionĪrmenians, and other non-Turkish ethnic groups. Numbers vary, but prior to WWI and the Turkification of the region, Asia Minor Their homeland. Asia Minor was used interchangeably with Anatolia, and Sounding nomenclature used by my grandfather’s generation when speaking of Of Armenian descent, I was born into the history of Asia Minor, an exotic Armenians being deported from Turkey during the Armenian genocide, circa 1915.
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