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Summary for human flow

Summary for Human Flow (2017) A film by Ai WeiWei Iraq

• Hosts 277,000 refugees (most fleeing Syria)
• 2003 US invasion of Iraq, almost 3 mil. Killed, 4 mil. Forced to flee (because of violence like missiles)
• THE UN REFUGE CONVENTION (1951): “A refugee is a person with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion” More than 56000 refugees arrived in Greece in a week In 2015, 2016 more than a million refugees arrived in Greece (most of them from Iraq, Syria) Refugees come in based on weather, less in winter, more in spring Unusual way of refugees coming into Europe (via Mediterranean Sea) started to become common, 1 mil. In 2016; Biggest wave since WW 2 (currently, more than 65 mil. Had been displaced highest since WW 2) Refugees from Iraq, Syria arrived in Greece travelled on to other European countries like Germany, Sweden to find asylum (welcomed by Angela Merkel’s government) Bangladesh
• Rohingya refugees (persecuted in Myanmar, women raped, lands taken etc)
• 5000,000 fled to Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia
• Ethnic cleansing done by Military junta in Myanmar Northern Greece
• Europe divided on Migrant crisis chaos for the migrants Greek-Macedonian border
• Beginning of 2015, many European countries started closing their borders to refugees, stranding many of them in Greece
• 130000 Migrants gathered at the village of Idomi in Northern Greece, hoping the Macedonian border will reopened (Macedonian borders, Slovenian and Croatian borders are closed)
• When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were 11 countries around the world with border fences and walls
• By 2016, 70 countries had built border fences and walls Siberian Hungarian Border

• Refugees worldwide spend average of 26 years displaced from homes
• Official camps shelter only 10% of refugees, the rest have to survive on their own Lebanon
• Hosts 2 mil. Refugees from Syria and Palestine (almost 1 third of Lebanon population)
• Camp in Lebanon known as one of the most populated places in the world
• Children had grown up within this camp
• Camp had been around for 60 years
• Syrian refugee children, don’t attend school (only half of them did)
• Many teenage refugees are traumatised from events at home
• EU new policy give money for countries to maintain the refugees Gaza
• Palestinians = world’s largest refugee population (4.7 mil Palestinians live in Gaza & West Bank)
• Palestinian refuges’ freedom restricted by Israeli walls and checkpoints
• A younger generation of Palestinians and Israelis never met the other group growing up; only here about stereotypes
• Israel and Egypt had blockaded Gaza; Gaza relies a lot on humanitarian aid to survive
• Gaza is going to collapse; no electricity; no clean water supply
• It is injustice - Hagai El-ad, Executive Director of B’Tselem
• Gaza is like a prison, all countries around them had blocked entries to Palestinians
• A tiger came to Gaza from Egypt through the tunnels; brought back to the wild from help of 4 countries; send the tiger back to Johannesburg Kenya
• Earliest migration of humans took place here
• Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 26 % of all refugees worldwide
• Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp complex (500000 refugees from Somalia, Eritrea, South Sudan fleeing violence and famine)
• UNHCR rep in Africa refugee situation is supposed to be temporary
• Refugee situation likely to deteriorate as climate change occurs more famine more droughts Pakistan
• Hosting afghan refugees since Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979
• Now deporting afghans for “security reasons”
• Many refugees have never been back in Afghanistan
• Afghan president ask for afghans to return and help rebuild Afghanistan
• Many refugees being sent back to Afghans are dislocated (as they had not been back for a long time)

• Cannot claim the lands of their forefathers etc. Berlin, Germany