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Refugees from Iraq are granted asylum at a higher rate than others in France. But few Iraqis even apply. Why is this? This piece tries to answer this question, through meetings with Iraqis camping out on the streets of Paris, and through interviews with France's asylum office.
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Refugees from Iraq are granted asylum at a higher rate than others in France. But few Iraqis even apply. Why is this? This piece tries to answer this question, through meetings with Iraqis camping out on the streets of Paris, and through interviews with France's asylum office.
Broadcast History
Produced for Radio France International. Aired September 2007.
Transcript
It's a drizzly Friday morning in July. Anne Romier is out near Paris' Gare de l'Est train station, looking for illegal immigrants.
She's a social worker with France Terre d'Asile?France, land of Asylum?a refugee rights organization. Each week she comes out here with an interpreter?they explain the asylum system to anyone who will listen.
Interpreter: Donc voila, ici nous sommes chez les kurdes
These are the Kurds, says the interpreter, who asked not to have his name used on the air; he's a refugee himself. Each immigrant group gathers in a different place: Pakistanis near a phone booth on one side; Afghans in a nearby square.
This morning, Romier and the interpreter found a group of Kurdish men in an alleyway behind a school
[talking]
Two are lying in sleeping bags on the ground next to a chain-linked fence. Romier and the interpreter learn that they are Kurds from Iraq...
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