Survey in Kukës/ New wave of Albanians with dinghies towards England!

2023-06-06 09:52:30Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Survey in Kukës/ New wave of Albanians with dinghies towards England!

Suella Braverman has warned of a new wave of Albanian migrants crossing the Channel this summer, despite the crackdown on small boats.

An internal study, commissioned by the United Kingdom embassy in Tirana, has been submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, which shows that half of young Albanians want to cross the Channel to Britain this summer.

The survey, based on 1,800 households in Kukës, the main area in northern Albania for migrants, showed that half of young people aged 17-22 wanted to leave their homeland and come to Britain, despite the dangers of crossing the Channel.

The revelation underscores the seasonal nature of illegal migration by Albanians as the main surge from the country did not materialize last year until June to September, when more than 10,000 of the 12,000 Albanians crossed the Channel in 2022.

It comes after Rishi Sunak and Ms Braverman hailed a 90 per cent drop in the number of Albanians arriving in small boats so far this year as evidence that their crackdown on small boats was working. The numbers have fallen from 2,165 in January to June 2022, to 151 in the first five months of 2023.

Ms Braverman told MPs that the government was "not complacent" despite the drop in numbers and would continue to monitor Albanian crossings.

The Home Office has stepped up its crackdown on Albanians in the past two months, setting up a 400-strong unit to fast-track around 17,000 asylum applications. Mr Sunak revealed on Monday that the success rate for Albanians seeking asylum had dropped from nearly one in five (17 per cent) to two per cent.

Ministers are also targeting a further 20,000 Albanians who have entered the UK illegally, although they admit that 70 to 80 per cent may have escaped on immigration parole.

They have also tightened rules on modern slavery amid allegations that it was used by Albanian migrants to avoid deportation. Since the government raised the threshold for evidence, Mr. Sunak said the percentage of claims denied had nearly tripled from 12 percent to 42 percent.

Sondazhi, i kryer nga Swiss Contact dhe i financuar nga Qeveria e Mbretërisë së Bashkuar, zbuloi se në përgjithësi 38 për qind e njerëzve në veri të Shqipërisë, një nga zonat më të varfra, donin të largoheshin.

Survey in Kukës/ New wave of Albanians with dinghies towards England!

Nga këta 59 për qind thanë se donin të vinin në MB, vetëm 20 për qind zgjodhën Gjermaninë dhe vetëm shtatë për qind Shtetet e Bashkuara. Gati gjysma (47 për qind) e atyre që donin të vinin në MB thanë se tashmë kishin të afërm në MB. Të rinjtë shqiptarë përfaqësonin kontigjentin më të madh të atyre që donin të largoheshin për në MB.

A record 45,700 migrants arrived in the UK last year through the Channel, a quarter of whom were Albanians. Figures on Monday showed that Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians remained the largest groups despite the declines. However, there was an increase in Indians, from 98 to 855, Turks from 169 to 516 and Vietnamese from 279 to 342.


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