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From Our Own Correspondent: Migration Special

09/09/2015

Migration Special

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Migration Special

Correspondents trace the roots and routes of Europe's migrant crisis.

This programme has been following migrant routes into Europe for years. Kate Adie presents a selection of dispatches from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Syria and the Czech Republic.

The current crisis about refugees and asylum seekers hasn't erupted from nowhere: From Our Own Correspondent has been following migrant routes into Europe for years. Kate Adie introduces a selection of the programme's dispatches from correspondents who have met the migrants and heard their stories. Alan Johnson, at the quayside of a Sicilian port, and Nick Thorpe in Hungary examine the harsh economics of the migrants'' journeys; Diana Darke rejoins a Syrian friend who made it to Germany and Lina Sinjab describes some of the terrors driving Syrians from their homes; and Rob Cameron finds anti-migrant rhetoric on the rise in the Czech Republic.

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