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every weekend on d w. how many of my friends and sacrifice their lives so we can live like folks do in europe . me article is the harvest community dependence on the slide was mike or enough for me that the audio look at the end of the summer. we do, everyone does. we weren't, we are in money and pay taxes. each of us will follow a monthly white working class named around here. we want our own place by doing it right away. everyone's new jerk reaction is close to borders, but these people will reach their destination. and when they do, what happens then see fit best, nothing to get done. the europe wouldn't be what it is without the work of millions

of immigrants. there were a big part of its history. today, the continent is confronted with its biggest wave of migration since the end of world war 2. millions of people have fled the war in ukraine. on the one hand, europe and europeans are welcoming these refugees on the east with open arms. on the other, for years it is closed, its doors to migrants arriving from the south. turning the continent into a militarized fortress, which migrates, they are allowed to cross the use closed borders. this is the big question that divides europe and its inhabitants. it's not just a humanitarian issue. more than ever, your needs immigrants to breathe new life into an aging continent. the,

for most europeans, russia's invasion of ukraine came as a shock. faced with a mass of humanitarian crisis, europe reacted promptly. volunteers from across the continent took action testimony. so you can sleep in 112 or 3 within days, countless 8 structures were set up to help relocate refugees across the entire costume that would that be where you're going to probably for the you was ready to help. member states gave refugees the opportunity to work and attend school right away. neighboring poland remains especially committed since the war began. connect goods population alone has risen by more than 15

percent. most every family in poland is helping ukrainian refugees in one way or another. in keys in k u in keys to, to defend circle of schools to shut down a rocket today. and it's due to a residential building. again, i'm going to groceries 5 minutes away from me. can you imagine this crop back to bus loads of refugees is not so rob heading here and we desperately need to happen to ensure the goal is coming in. and she and some friends turned a former university building into a makeshift hospital. it provides accommodation and support for up to $200.00 refugees, mainly women and children before they continue on their journey. which most of the, some parts of the area isn't perfect because it was set up in 2 days with money from private soon and i'm not sure about maybe that's why it has that to me. feel

to me is so can you hold on for me on that was still working on it, but it was still the day now. the 1st full these women dream is going back home. big 1st. they've come here. we get very little luggage of event only brought the base, they got somebody else or blue. they all hope the war will be able to see what the problem is. and i just hope that off of your appeals continue to sustain that goodwill case. the who lost a loan, which i'm dreading, who is a new search, we may need the compassion and open house from emotional nebraska there, such as the ukrainian refugees are benefiting from a search of empathy and solidarity. what you're worth isn't always as welcoming to those who see gets help crossing borders into the e. u is proving increasingly difficult. many member states have built walls since the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 more than 1000 kilometers of new barriers have been erected in europe between greece and turkey. between hungary,

croatia, and serbia. in stay with the many between morocco in spain, and in 2021. 187 kilometers of barbed wire were added between bellows and poland. p or migrants are constantly turned away. the, it's not just the walls and fences that keep potential intruders out. satellites and drones, monitor the waters in and around the you the, this is the river every 500 kilometers long. it costs a 2, it's a natural border between greece and turkey. it's also one of the most dangerous entry points into your the, the river is constantly watched the greek police and army patrol it with the help of front tax the european border and coast guard agency. but this device of

security comes out of cost. the u and greets have invested billions of europe and reinforcing border controls. the latest development this 40 kilometer long steel barrier meant to keep out any would be intruders. in recent years, thousands of people have tried to get across the coveralls for many of them have also fled. war in syria. afghanistan union revealed you and they aren't welcomed everywhere with open arms. was in the me been in the illegal immigrants are a daily problem. the unfortunately, a big problem they shouldn't be allowed in at all when you may as well, if you like us, i'm a member of the national guard. well, there are many of us here at the city of the any time the army needs us, we're ready to this one man must send them to the level of we learned about weapons

. you know how to shoot of everything that's needed to go without pay. of course we do it for our country and for our family. so to me, to give illegal immigrants cause any trouble, i don't know if we know what to do, but hopefully that won't happen. and it will cost us the audiologist is a farmer and cafe owner in a village near the river ever us as a child. he lived for several years in germany when his parents couldn't find work in greece, as he knows himself what it means to be an immigrant. but for him, there is no comparison because of this, we were economic immigrant. this in the germany was looking for workers imaging the beacon, lots of them is a we didn't sneak into the country if we'd been unable to find to work with them as well. yeah, we would have come back home. so, but that is the most,

as we weren't very glutamate taxes like anyone else, we didn't some deal or anything with the the, the approval i left here when i was in 5th grade, i was in the beer hall. i'd hear german say, pardon the expression? the greeks are here to me. i also experienced racism and work on it. just went abroad. you're always a foreigner. that never stops that are going to is in his kennel. so the, the above, if the at some point you will experience racism and others as well as those here in grace on them. i feel like i found my family again. so really my mama, my home country. but the,

the things that we've done been as you go in and don't, you know, there's some talk some, and it sounds like during most see me soon to be. so what is the going to have? so we do, the western, europe's post, more economic pool would scarcely have been possible without its so called guest workers, mainly from turkey and greece. they were only meant to stay for a while. yet many settled permanently and brought their families. or these guests became fellow citizens, which wasn't easy for either side. the tons, the parents came to germany in 1968 and 69. this my father arrived in munich and 68 to come, then went on to cologne. my mom came 6 months later,

i still have problems with the documents. not so life for the use of in the family started in cologne, 150 for me to use the categories. was the mission of video, which said that, gosh, for my the, i'm at the time of crunched up kind of all my pop up. com 19 from dish does the estimate of deutsch. my dad came to germany for the 1st time in 1958 as a guest worker. and a factory for his dream was always to earn money here in deutschland, and go back home to naples in a mercedes suit. and then people would say, look at penny. no, he's made it down. he's a big man now a ghost. i'm on. fortunately, that didn't happen as you know because my dad still lives here. healy but still i feel both mini a policy and from cologne. both equally, a part attracted by hudson and nicholas the the of on i know phone getting done to we were quite and the group of kids,

michael connell, director donations moroccans, greeks, spaniards, on few mission, want to me. we were all the same time on this. come, i'd say if you spread to meet me these and it was only much later that we started to feel uncomfortable here in mind as foreigners and double. they called me spaghetti eater before macaroni, eat or go when he for some money. that's what i'm my parents told me, i must. you need to be 10 times more germany than the germans for them to accept you. production is active to function. i knew it was months of gone to a gift card to come on lunch. so there's almost that was the summer of 1999. the one glossy and under the bookstore, and i wrapped respite to just a quick run. then one of us said one month that started a rough group. so we found it microphone mafia right on the spot to you microphone much. it was when the visa visa, we loved this, music's i'm for me because we could identify with the people who made it. your tom

let's see, does punted. you didn't need any expensive instruments. to mentor? yeah, just on pen and paper, ultimately the field and shift decline is uniform existing beyond the 16 year old from that place are still in a somewhere in their dreams have changed to move to the music, live in sync with the guns nagging next sunday, we realized right away that drop has this power to reach people home is human, old people identify with our lyrics with our music. so we said um, okay, let's wrap it better lives through the better. but the stuff we weren't able to talk about even the by the see any to clinton go, it was his good the, the supposed to be towards germany gave me and my parents a lot 30 years ago. i see she including a certain way of thinking these are some of the traditional is, is a bit from the left a bit from the right within, but also a bit out of the box. ok,

because there are so many cultures here when using the, the sort of what was the voltage and for years they expected us to integrate. how much more can we do? we go to school work, your kids go to school. here was the parents did so much for this country on what even if they're still saying, fortunately, you must have integration with, you know, that's been passed on to the next generation. but now there are people traumatized by war suffering and death. those key stairs to so we as a majority society to which i believe we now belong to much of welcome people. first health that's essentially ask, what becomes, what job many men and women are willing to do anything to reach europe. but the reality is only a tiny fraction of them making every year, thousands of migrants drowned, trying to cross the mediterranean. more than 20000 between 20142021.

a tragedy that europe has grown accustomed to these dots represent the number of bodies that have been recovered. so many fines are never registered. despite the dangers and all the efforts to discourage them, some migrants do manage to reach europe. shores say, do a deal is one of them by obama was originally from senegal. he passed through libya before reaching spain by boat. some of the most of the us get his thomas. yes. so we're the ones who picks the fruit guys. mendoza is the reality. you see here it'll and left for the best on that you make it on everyone. picking fruit isn't the real get. they come in everything that you eat and enjoy it home with your families. it's going to disappear, like people who are suffering a little for him just so you know,

the in the just look over the phone and so i saw him to get federal home in the late pool, receive miserable wages and stuff, or a sofa in which or they don't have decent housing and putting them. people are living under plastic sheets and police has made from wooden pallet bullets because somebody called one pallet that might add a bedroom. i assume in the winter it's freezing cold and then summer scorching calling is gonna be 142. i mean, you can't ever relax like that as but as soon shameful and not better when everyone prefers to look the other way as if it, as soon as this distance exist outside of the united states, that's the reality of life. we already know. they could at least build alternative housing or, and because there are tons of solutions better than this one, but i'm just mostly shown is me, holidays getting it. but some of we deserve respect is going to be

treated with dignity. and with the me see can a bits of humana see, what could it? juanita essentially gave me this as the industrial part. he laughed associated espanol in spanish. society should understand that when we are contributing to want to be we do, everyone does look at that. we weren't, couldn't, we are earning money and paying taxes. it's almost all bundled e, by the say do do a is a member of us, new c and association that provides aid and advice to migrants. it also campaigns for better working and living conditions, the si se, se give up to me if i some new. so you can build a shelter to host 40 men and women. but if you move latest and the authorities and the politicians could do even more, because no point enough here to must guess to is

a gesture to shows they haven't been no more excuses than most of that can. i must explosives, the conditions on some farms in southern europe are reminiscent of those in the days of slavery. cheap workers for cheap food in which you're the what, luckily, there are farms where labor relations are more equitable and valid. concise as far migrant workers are treated with respect. you know, they over the, when i was in school, there was a migratory workforce coming from within spain. you did zillow. my father had a team from civil from the villages and finish. if you get it, they came just to pick stop, right? local. say to the producer out of a room, but if in dire virginia now this just a small percentage of spanish workers and the rest of from molly rural cohort to go

and fold area to do i. a lot of you know that a lot of you i was like going to use the fruit. okay. for the yang yes. more or less? oh man. a lot of it matched me then. yeah. so let's by then do a ton baton because i am like what do we do then pay them black, paint them into see yes, much in the then the think oversee some 75 or 80 percent if the workers are not from spain a and then the harvest clearly depends on the flow of migrant on the agreements that the countries have made and how this is being handled. geopolitically, we're going to take him on the 20 percent of workers in spain, from the agricultural sector come from other countries, mainly from outside the you. the statistics are similar in many other member states

. what, what europe do without migrant workers, there was a backbone of its economy. caregivers, cook's careers, doctors by 2 specialists. there's also another argument to be made for immigration. europe is aging, and demographers are sounding the alarm soon. there won't be enough young people in europe to ensure its prosperity and standard of living a decade ago for workers secured the pension of one retiree. by the year 2016, there will be just 2 working people for every retiree. this ticking demographic time off poses a threat to every country in europe. the projection show that if germany wants to maintain growth and preserve its social systems,

it needs to taken 400000 migrants a year. and that's why, since 2013, the country has welcome some 2600000 refugees. what integrating them is not always easy for the new comers or their host country. both need to be open to what can be a long process in berlin, the restaurant be an angel, is a project set up to promote integration run by a charity. it was founded by former journalist under they asked to come, i know my next i'm not square use here, is that either you might have been to my standard line is here to pay my pension divide. i'm the typical old white german male. i'm 61. but in my line to the next generation to keeping confidence in my old age, i thought supervisors of the financial is 5000 seems to be an angel. was founded in 2015, was due to the humanitarian emergency situation,

and lack of support in berlin, which has since developed even further, has been. we've placed 900 people in apprenticeship programs and around the same number and jobs. and this empower, aim is empowerment. we want people to be able to live their own lives without her housing. yeah, i can just leave them feeling good. yeah . beyond that we have see thing for 110 people high, but we have 7 trainees right now. our team consists of 16 people from 10 nations. we only work with refugees. crushed. i know that that's the name of the war in syria forced us to flee, even after we settled into refugee housing. i started running, jim, and i know i've been applied for official papers. i've got them right now as luna. hello, you said that was with everything. okay. good. since i missed you,

did you miss me? we missed you 2 such as the mother as a global i registered as a language school and needed to reach be one of the 2 levels of it. money, any gym and certificates go a long way. here i looked for a suitable career the where i learned cooking was my passion. when i started working here making decisions for the restaurants and to react them upon a category. yvonne so how did you get on with the interviews with a okay, steve for this the yes. okay. and easy for you, but you're still not happy with me. so free 9 by it's been few and glad to show know because honest. 34 years old. i graduated in 2 months ago on the, which means i'm a young chef. now. sions, one. this has so i'll only be paid what a young shepherd fuzzy which is disappointing interest i. yes,

i understand. as far as i have experience on the certificate, the issue is i've done an internship. yeah. the photo is think it was i think 2 years experience should be enough to get a good starting salary. we'll see. yes, i'll keep trying. the advice of the in the spring of 2022 under the is took and this team begin bringing ukrainian refugees, which led to poland and we'll go over to germany. for years, people from countries bordering eastern europe have immigrated to the but until now for other reasons. this footage was shocked in the summer of 2021. at the bottom, yet check point on the ukraine. poland border every day, thousands of ukrainians lined up to go to work in poland. it shows,

even before the war broke out, how close ties were between the 2 countries, the 6 months later, ukrainians were lining up again. this time to flee putin's army and to regain their lost freedoms and safety. things can change incredibly quickly. within the e u. people move from one country to the next without giving it much thought the. it's easy to forget that this freedom is an achievement. and that the free movement of peoples is one of the pillars of the european idea of the one that's also foster decades of economic rooks on those demos, as you know, in 1999, the rest of this program finally arrived in romania. i'm going to the dots. i applied for us and managed to get a scholarship, most of a lot of booked on romanian architects living in belgium is one of those who has

benefited from the idea of a unified euro to and i'm still with you and i didn't know what leaving romania for you meant back in 1999 opened through been thrown on she has done some not. it meant tons of paper with, with lots of photocopies medical tests and other things to get my visa automatically consulting. visa. she the purchase of the whole process was so she, many i seen and so tedious that when i listen to that, it was such a relief for me. i said to myself, i'm thank god you're out. i because you guys knew no, i didn't want to go back. that's how mad i wasn't romania, romania. she got almost at the moment but i left behind my family and very many friends. but i did miss the people. yes. on and off was the kind of on some of the isn't when i arrived and live and they didn't know much about

romania and looked at me oddly the to that and to go. they associated romanians was biggest thieves, dangerous people who wants to home belgian roland? all been genuine and they'd say your from romania could you go? blue was awesome. someone with a voice from that said the nucleus that's looking bought that will change when romania joined the use of occupants now that bill now submit move romanian. um i want to take as little thing. it's doctor sure thought police are holding it has change to put it less. asking bob, besides, lou liberty in brussels was actually my own. m die each. the use most diversity around 75 percent of brussels residents are foreigners or have foreign roots. lots of people to get go know you're not viewed as a foreigner and brussels is to really you just one of its inhabitants. i'm going to model when you state romania is still not able to protected citizens or the belgium is the bought up and who comes to the felt free because for the 1st time in my

adult life, because i knew i was safe, a single slab down to the very side to being european should offer a system protection solution sent and the feeling that we can live online just signature on it. the 2007 was a crucial year for romania, along with the gary of the country joins the european union. many romanians immediately took advantage of this opportunity and left their homeland the it's in the bottom, you don't have that a one click ok, almost a full beacon romanians have immigration. that's a huge number with the remaining immigrants in case of the early and it's really quick on farms own as a euro box. and then on all the construction site site visits, i hear people speaking remaining that since i don't want to go to these of the

romanian people cannot shut off the bill and feed you especially for some of the girls so many romanian intellectuals who lived on this to the korea, so for the, for the cost was continua. i think that the for so no, no, no, no, far the 3rd issue, the instance when i go to any hospital clinic and brussels, nico doesn't exist though i always see the name and some romanian doctor for us. avoid whom at the bookstore when some leave. others stay such a mass exodus as of workers have left ghost towns and deserted areas all over europe . here in red, we can see the regions that are losing the most inhabitants. mainly in eastern europe, people are moving to more prosperous areas with more promising job markets in blue on the map. it's a special agreement book area,

which has lost 15 percent of its population in the last 20 years. and it's predicted that by 2040, over 30 percent of bulk areas will have left their country, making it the fastest population decline of any country during peacetime. shoulders and i made of a for a lease or something that assessment. this village is located in south eastern bulgaria and you know, to, to, to near the bone gary a turkey border. she had a in the past and she, there were 1200 inhabitants in you, but as of now, unfortunately. so there are just 35 people left out to cool. can you see fit to be jealous? unfortunately, for villages located far from the city. so that's what happens with the it's the great migration because people die that up to you,

but no babies are born generally. that's all there is to it. fine, good to me. you must do quite a bit of good bracco. there was a pop where we will gather adobe. they threw great county's human look. now there are no celebrations for new policies, nothing new. good. everyone stays at home. they do me. there's no way to go when you no one to say a few words to. no one's telling me stories to. no soul in sight, been. i have a son who's now living in from for to if he comes in once every 3 months that didn't make that very nice of use the me do you got a tax life feeling for gotten into a band and it's a frustration that doesn't just eat a way of people in southern and eastern europe. this feeling of abandonment also exists in economically troubled parts of western and northern europe to

black and red card in the northeast of england, which has fallen on hard times. so the cult merrier. read cat a as in the top, 3 percent is deprivation. the country a, we've got a numerous amount. it says on function happenings over the years that the made our area so create for those that revision scales still works have been around for around a 170 years. unfortunately, 2015. it was like large stocks to steal and unfortunately it died. i mean, that was in the state of the cheapest 36 years and i've got friends who have been in after the yard. yes. it really didn't get a lot of names. confidence it was you know, had been made the find the state of the world and now you know,

they were going to be told to go out to going cautious to be the rest is and it will make coffee and sound legit say. you know, they saw these, james, and it was just, it just devastated people. it really did devastate people. frankly, wales runs a charity that's trying to bring a ray of hope back to the people of red card. the former box, or has made his boxing club a pillar of his organization. the glasses are very popular with the local youngsters. there's not much else for them to do in town. at cobham hall, franky wales organizes a variety of events that provide entertainment and good cheer. most people here feel far removed from what's happening in the major cities. in 2016, the majority of red cars residents voted for breakfast

brakes. it was very important for us. 71 percent of the people in this town voted to leave. people are at the point where they would just like me to listen to the. so we need to change. i believe that's why i don't i don't know how i said, i'm not an economist, but if, if i give the european union a pound and they gave me 70 pens back, you know, i've got a minute myself to a pinch going. so i'm, i'm quite happy for, for us to spend our own money and make our own laws. we want the industries to come back. we want our own place by no pay that the lack of jobs across your people in disadvantaged regents feel neglected and let down by their governments and elected officials. some politicians target these fevers and frustrations. here,

anti immigrant rhetoric finds receptive years. it slogans and policies divide, not just communities, but all of europe itself. still, poland is an example of how quickly things can change. after it joined the you in 2004 many poles left to work in britain or other member states for wages and standards of living or higher. but many have since returned. and not just because of breakfast, the business is booming, and poland in 2021. it had the 9th largest economy in all of your the city of which, once known as the manchester of poland, exemplifies this transformation. kasha hollis is one of the many emigrants who returned home to be part of this upswing.

if that's of i'm of the i was working at the daycare center. i just was i thought if i were ever to go back to poland, i do for one like that for parents. children who are not going to show them how to learn languages and how much fun a daycare can be. gimme a call. so fun that the kids wouldn't even want to go home with the adults was the main reason why i came back certain of them. but i wanted to start my own business, or show up as what i learned in my years abroad, and bring it back to bone and let me push, but it didn't work out. unfortunately. you said, you know, so has ended up with about this child. but polls returning from abroad can't make up for the labor shortage caused by the economic boom pollings ruling law and justice party, which is traditionally very anti immigration, was forced to turn to a neighboring ukraine. when the scenes were found, nearly every employee at holland as barber shop was ukrainian. the

others are to invest again. i was studying in the ukraine function, but i quit because they didn't see my future there. so that's why i moved here together with my girlfriend. she talked me into coming see i'm a came here together to study institution at studio, which left to the dentist is one of the many ukrainians who come to poland to work and finance their studies. you today is that to us over to look at 1st i worked at mcdonalds and in fact, even the worst job is still better here. so let me know if it's not like you can live a normal life, even on the lowest wages and reflect and whatnot. like in ukraine. uh no, but i mean it was like say tell him to say i have come here to stay and i didn't come just to work and go back later wrong as i feel a little bit of both cheerfully and ukrainian for lucky echo could i have not sent

you an apple the end of the business. i'm assuming i knew him a moment about this and we also system that we see things the same way. if you have similar views as i say. but ukrainians have more in common with poles than with russians. and maya vince, the reason they when they're just flows, orient themselves to the west and that way of life isn't uh, on your spectrum the ukraine is not like that yet. the said go either cuz you're going in the phone and do some more research on it. now that it is part of the you the, the compared to ukraine, you, would you still hoping to get into the new because from my vision of it for the it

was in the summer of 2021 life in poland seemed full of promise for julia and denis, 7 months later, russia's invasion of ukraine changed everything. while you're here with desperately trying to get her family out of ukraine, dennis was nowhere to be found. his cell phone wasn't working, the ukrainians clean their country, have now been granted temporary protection in the u. this emergency measure it gets all ukrainian citizens the right to live and work in any you country the we got the way so we'll have to i think many ukrainians will stay in here and on the behalf. so many will come back to rebuild the cream. so the resurrected door, what did you mark the machine?

what are people are dying just so that we can live freely, man is not like under that tyrant in russia, the probably sooner we'll take meal and bathroom breaks on route. great, thanks. welcome to the issue which we want to live like people in europe do freely in a democratic country, under the rule of law. at some point, tomorrow, we want to be law abiding to walk. we want to work to rebuild you crazy that the thought you a few people, there's no doubt that we want to live like in europe. many of my friends sacrifice their lives, so we can live like folks do in europe. we use a job, the floss a may not like an evil empire. some studies love me. the book must be life without democracy and freedom isn't an option to use. and then we will live in europe for the next lot unless it's and that's why

it was easy to so that's why that's why our families are fighting. this poor people will always move in search of security freedom and a better life. both within and outside of your migration changes, not just migrant slides, but things in their host. countries to send to me then let me get on some now to solve on it. to me immigration was my salvation response to the idea. say i was privileged, my god. in the meantime, over the past 20 years, i've come to the conclusion that this privilege works. both ways that you want any kind of meaning that those welcoming immigrants enjoy this privilege to let you the there are revitalizing falls for us with the but i can help us in the hills of society. i consider this

a good thing for the board. the most recent gets immigration policies from a humanitarian and practical point of view. the crisis in ukraine has shown that the you can welcome large numbers of refugees swiftly and efficiently. rather than leaving them in limbo for years. the europe needs to find new ways to receive and integrate people. these migrants have rights and wants to be seen as future fellow citizens. many are already living and working on the continent. they are europeans to the

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