Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, and The Hague are very concerned about a group of at least 11,000 refugees who will have to integrate in the coming years. A new integration system will be implemented on January 1, but everyone who got a residency permit before that date will have to integrate in the old, failing system. The old integration system was …
I am a doctor based in Toronto and have spent at least half of my working life in disaster and conflict zones – in Bangladesh, on the Syrian-Jordanian border, on the Venezuelan-Colombian border and, most recently, in Greece. When refugees arrive in Moria, a prison-like camp surrounded by barbed wire, originally designed for 3,000 people but now housing almost seven …