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It has been a decade since Liliane last saw her little girl. She fled Africa in fear for her life, leaving behind everything she knew and loved in the hope of a fresh start in Japan.
Today, she scrapes a living from dead-end jobs, and what Japanese she knows has been snatched from television shows. There is little government help for people like her: free language courses are limited, social housing is hard to find, discrimination is rife.
Yet Liliane is regarded as one of the lucky ones -- she was granted refugee status in Japan, a country which refuses more than 99 percent of cases.
"It has not been easy," she tells AFP, speaking under a pseudonym.
She adds: "Here they do not pay for your studies, they do not help you to get bank loans, or give you social housing... we are left to ourselves, we have to fight alone."
Anti-refugee sentiment is rising in Europe and the United States but in Japan those seeking haven from tyranny and war have long faced daunting legal and social gauntlets.
One of the world's wealthiest countries, Japan accepted just 28 refugees in 2016 -- one more than the previous year -- out of the 8,193 applications reviewed by the Immigration Bureau.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-welcome-japan-tough-crack-refugees-032756703.html
My ancestors were not given diddly squat when they got here in 1705. They either made a go of it or died. When you MUST do something except stick your hand out to survive it really helps with focus...
Today, she scrapes a living from dead-end jobs, and what Japanese she knows has been snatched from television shows. There is little government help for people like her: free language courses are limited, social housing is hard to find, discrimination is rife.
Yet Liliane is regarded as one of the lucky ones -- she was granted refugee status in Japan, a country which refuses more than 99 percent of cases.
"It has not been easy," she tells AFP, speaking under a pseudonym.
She adds: "Here they do not pay for your studies, they do not help you to get bank loans, or give you social housing... we are left to ourselves, we have to fight alone."
Anti-refugee sentiment is rising in Europe and the United States but in Japan those seeking haven from tyranny and war have long faced daunting legal and social gauntlets.
One of the world's wealthiest countries, Japan accepted just 28 refugees in 2016 -- one more than the previous year -- out of the 8,193 applications reviewed by the Immigration Bureau.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-welcome-japan-tough-crack-refugees-032756703.html
My ancestors were not given diddly squat when they got here in 1705. They either made a go of it or died. When you MUST do something except stick your hand out to survive it really helps with focus...
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Mine were not either. They came to the US in 1732 in the Ann with Oglethorpe. One was badly wounded at the battle of Bloody marsh in 1742 fighting the Spanish.
I don't imagine an African doing well in Japan. I cannot see the Japanese accepting them as anything but menial workers. I really find it hard to believe she was even given asylum and granted citizenship.