Archive for November 11, 2008

Topic: migration & (illegal) immigration

Topic: Illegal Immigration to the Canary Islands

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6160633.stm

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,692203,00.jpg

 

Interesting articles:

http://www.islacanaria.net/newsblog/news/archives/2008/09/16/09034468.html

This article is about a new airplane for the so called Guadia Civil. The plane should contoll the coasts of the canary islands and avoid illegal immigration.

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,428083,00.html

This SPIEGEL article deals with the arriving of four boats on the canary coast with people from africa. Altogether they were about 250 people, many of them in a bad physical condition, one man dead.

 

http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/meldung115818.html

This is another article about people trying to reach spanish ground. In this case 1000 persons arrived at the coast, the reception camps were totally overcrowded.

 

http://www.zeit.de/2007/46/Migration

This is a reportage about illegal immigrants from africa on tenerife and the problems the situation causes.

 

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/vermischtes/2008/07/11/vier-tote/bei-fluechtlings-drama-vor-den-kanaren.html

 

Questions and Facts that might help to stucture the presentation/to understand the situation:

  • geographic situation
  • reasons to escape to spain
  • how dangerous is it to travel by boat
  • what do the refugees expect
  • what does spain do with the refugees
  • what is the actual situation
  • how could this imigration be avoided