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Germany Bars the Door
Talbot, Margaret | June 13, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on a refugee pregnant woman, Maria Abate who is trying to reach Germany. She and her family are refugees who fled the civil war in Somalia, made their way to Ethiopia and, on December 12, 1993 arrived at the Frankfurt airport seeking safe haven in Germany. Unfortunately for them, it was six months after the German Parliament had decided to jettison the country's liberal postwar asylum policy-a constitutional guarantee of refuge to anyone who had been politically persecuted in his home country and a conscious atonement for the forced emigrations of the Nazi era.

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REFUGEES; GERMANY -- Social conditions; CIVIL war; ASYLUM, Right of; FRANKFURT am Main (Germany); GERMANY
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