Right from the beginning Germany distributed its asylum seekers all over the country according to a particular formula. In many ways that's good news because integration is a local story. But you often get sort of huge inconsistencies between places there. And all this can be very confusing and disorientating for migrants themselves when they're confronted by a whole bunch of different authorities at different levels.
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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