Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 22:14:33 GMT -6
They are pejoratively called “menas” but they are human beings, young people who have had to leave their country due to war or absolute poverty. They dream of a better life and working to send money to their families. Their presence in Spain, and throughout Europe, raises controversy and unfortunately they are used politically by the extreme right. But life has given them no other option. The majority of young people who come to our country are from Morocco. The lack of possibilities to survive makes them make a very risky decision. The whole family raises enough money, which is not little, to pay the mafias who will bring them to Europe. The Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain in 2018, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, were around 8,470 boys and 371 girls.
Guinea and Mali follow. In all of them, the percentage of boys over girls is much higher. As I was able to see firsthand while collecting information for my book VIDAS (Ed La Galera), the hardships they suffer before being able to board a boat are tremendous. On the way from their town of origin to arriving at the beach where they board, they suffer scams, robberies and rapes. They begin their navigation broken and Belgium Mobile Number List very afraid of the unknown. They are very young and feel unprotected because they really are. They feel uprooted since they live far from their environment, they suffer a heartbreaking culture shock. When they are sick they have no one to take care of them, when they arrive in a country that does not speak their language, they do not understand and they do not know who to ask.
If that is already hard for an adult, it is even more so for a teenager. Once they disembark, which not all of them succeed since many die on the way, they find themselves in a country that calls them “menas”, synonymous for many with dangerous criminals. They do not understand the language, nor the customs nor do they know where to go. The luckiest go to a Shelter but others end up on the street. The system is not yet ready to cover everyone. “Boys and girls who are afraid can do scary things. Children who live on the streets find themselves in very dangerous situations. They may find themselves involved in conflicts with the law, entering the field of juvenile justice, with a wide spectrum of actions that range from small conflicts on the street, to theft and trafficking of substances to survive or be captured by informal criminal networks. or organized,” says UNICEF in its report Beyond Survival. And not only that.
Guinea and Mali follow. In all of them, the percentage of boys over girls is much higher. As I was able to see firsthand while collecting information for my book VIDAS (Ed La Galera), the hardships they suffer before being able to board a boat are tremendous. On the way from their town of origin to arriving at the beach where they board, they suffer scams, robberies and rapes. They begin their navigation broken and Belgium Mobile Number List very afraid of the unknown. They are very young and feel unprotected because they really are. They feel uprooted since they live far from their environment, they suffer a heartbreaking culture shock. When they are sick they have no one to take care of them, when they arrive in a country that does not speak their language, they do not understand and they do not know who to ask.
If that is already hard for an adult, it is even more so for a teenager. Once they disembark, which not all of them succeed since many die on the way, they find themselves in a country that calls them “menas”, synonymous for many with dangerous criminals. They do not understand the language, nor the customs nor do they know where to go. The luckiest go to a Shelter but others end up on the street. The system is not yet ready to cover everyone. “Boys and girls who are afraid can do scary things. Children who live on the streets find themselves in very dangerous situations. They may find themselves involved in conflicts with the law, entering the field of juvenile justice, with a wide spectrum of actions that range from small conflicts on the street, to theft and trafficking of substances to survive or be captured by informal criminal networks. or organized,” says UNICEF in its report Beyond Survival. And not only that.