What is it really that takes the immigrants over the Mediterranean to Europe? That question was discussed in yesterday's SVT Aktuellt 21. SVT's answer: Economic immigrants who want a better life and who think Europe is "a single big ATM."
This year, 82,000 people have traveled to Europe via the Mediterranean. 2000 has died on sea voyage.
This was, among other things, what was discussed in yesterday's SVT News. And many viewers probably perceived the broadcast as unusually honest.
It was SVT's foreign commentator Erika Bjerström who answered the question of what is taking over the Mediterranean to the EU.
She had very concrete and straightforward answers: young men travel from non-war democracies who lack refugee status, which sees Europe as a "cash machine" and travels here for a better life.
Migrant streams come from West Africa. These young men, for it's almost just men, come from countries such as Senegal, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Gambia. These are democracies with good economic growth. But these young men have heard about Europe in rosy red skimmer, and want it to seek happiness and a better life," says Erika Bjerström in SVT Aktuell's live broadcast on Thursday night.
92 percent of those traveling across the Mediterranean to Europe travel through Libya, explains Erika Bjerström.
"The big problem is that these young men are wrongly informed. They are looking at Europe as a single big ATM. They have grown up with relatives going to collect money that they then send home to their villages in Africa. They must, therefore, receive accurate information that it is dangerous and illegal to enter Europe in this way.
Erika Bjerström points out that men can not even stay in Europe because they are "economic migrants".
"90 percent are just migrants in search of a better life," she says.
The EU is currently investing in information campaigns to make immigrants stay in their homelands. Indeed, the EU has very big problems in managing the tens of thousands of immigrants who succeed in moving from Africa to Europe. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic refuse to receive them in their countries.
Erika Bjerström believes that the EU is completely taken on the bed. She points out that this is about a globalization "which goes on overcrowding".
According to Bjerström, it has gone so far that the EU now wants to build large camps to catch immigrants already in Africa.
"A big taboo in the EU now is that we want to focus on collection camps in North Africa, where we will sell economic migrants from those with refugee status. And those who are economic migrants should be able to return to their homelands under worthy forms, "she said.
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