More than a million migrants flooded into Germany in 2015. Initially, the country handled the influx well but five years on its experience has been mixed. By 2018 almost half of migrants who came between 2013 and 2016 were either in employment or education or some form of training. Women are a big big problem particularly women who come from backgrounds where entering the labour market is generally not assumed that they will do.
Five years ago, a vast wave of migrants and refugees began to spill into the country. We examine their fates amid a tangle of bureaucracy. Even for the uninfected, the coronavirus has caused widespread “collective trauma”; we ask about its effects and how to heal from it. And Palestinians sneak to the beach as security forces look the other way.
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