Great expectations: Migrants in Germany

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 8 October 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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India Rakusen travels to the city of Hamburg to find out why Germany has become the destination of choice for so many of the thousands of refugees heading across Europe.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC Podcast.
0:02.3	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:04.9	at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:16.1	I'm India Raksan and for assignment on the BBC World Service,
0:19.6	I'm in the city of Hamburg in North Germany,
0:22.1	where around 500 migrants are arriving every day.
0:27.0	This is Ella.
0:28.2	She's from Syria.
0:29.4	She traveled here with her two sisters and her father.
0:32.1	Now, when I'm staying in Germany, I have to
0:34.8	help me and make a dance.
0:37.4	Thank you, Mama Merkel.
0:40.5	And then there's Ali.
0:41.6	He's a young student from Afghanistan.
0:44.1	I have a nice feeling.
0:46.2	Yeah, I'm safe.
0:47.8	And now no one can, no one can injure me, no one can kill me.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:54.9	They've both traveled thousands of miles on a journey
0:57.6	that's commonly known as the death route.
0:59.8	They have hopes of a new start.
1:01.5	Ali wants a better education,
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