"[A]t the exact moment that the unimaginable has happened—that #Syria has finally thrown off a half-century of dictatorship and might see the end of its civil war—many of #Germany’s politicians are more interested in establishing their opposition to migration and playing to what they imagine is an anti-refugee crowd than in celebrating."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/syrian-refugees-germany-elections/

#SyrianRefugees #refugees #AsylumSeekers #SyrianDiaspora #xenophobia @syria

The Syrian Diaspora in Germany After Assad

Some refugees may return to Syria because they want to live there again. But many won’t—for the same reasons many refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe didn’t after World War II.

The Nation