This Treaty, which in France in France the control of the entrances on the British territory, is one of the causes that encourages many people to attempt the crossing of the Channel, at the risk of their lives. But since Brexit, its application is called into question.
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Analysis. The tragedy which, Wednesday, 24 November, led to death by drowning in the round of at least 27 migrants, mostly of the Kurds of Iraq or Iran, recalls cruelly that thousands of people are trying, at the risk of their lives. , to cross this arm of the sea to reach the United Kingdom. No matter if the barriers are always more numerous to disfigure Calais (Pas-de-Calais), its port and the surroundings of the tunnel under the sleeve. It is now on wealth pneumatic canoes that migrants are trying to jump to the United Kingdom from the French coast.
This phenomenon says Small Boats illustrates, in addition to the extreme determination of people, the failure of the management of the Franco-British border. Faced with ever greater figures of crossings – 26,000 since the beginning of the year, three times more than in 2020 – the response of the French and British interior ministers is safe. A few days before the drama, Gérald Darmanin and Prii Patel announced that they agreed on “additional technical solutions” to combat smugglers. They rely on “the use of new technologies” to seal the border. At no place the minutes of their exchanges address the issue of asylum. “Our structural response is to break the networks of smugglers”, confirms the French Ministry of the Interior.
However, according to a study by the British NGO Refugee Council, 98% of the people who have managed to reach the United Kingdom in Small Boat since 2020 asylum asylum asylum. Due to the countries of origin of the majority of these applicants – Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam, Eritrea, Afghanistan -, chances are big as London gives them international protection. In 2020 and 2021, the protection rate at first instance of Iranians was 67%, 28% for Iraqis, 70% for Sudanese, 88% for Syrians.
“Niet. “From the United Kingdom
The Small Boat has become the main route of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. As it is partly replaced by other routes now Tariaies (planes, trucks), asylum demand remains low in the country. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, if applications are addressed in Europe and the United Kingdom in 2020, the latter was not addressed by 7% of them with 36,000 requests , which place it in fifth position. If these requests are reported to the country’s population, it then backs up to the e rank.
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