Ukrainians have been welcomed into Poland and other neighboring countries as they flee Russian attacks. I was crying."Įn route between the Ukrainian city of Lviv and Poland, security guards dragged "all the Black guys from the train," said Clement Akenboro, an economics student from Nigeria.Ī woman wearing the Ukrainian flag is handed a beverage at the train station in Przemysl, Poland, on Thursday. "I mean, that's the worst experience in my life. "I've been through a lot in Polish border," Nigerian medical student Freedom Chidera told NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Students in Ukraine from Africa and South Asia have reported being treated poorly and encountering discrimination at the border as they tried to flee.
There are also fresh incidents that have brought charges of racism. Racism is seen in discrimination at the border and journalists' comments But not all member states were willing to take their share, Hungary among them. Germany took in 1 million migrants and urged the rest of the EU to accept some of the refugees. In 20, large numbers of migrants, many of them from Syria and Iraq, arrived on Europe's shores seeking refuge. The United States and European governments accuse the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of luring asylum-seekers and thrusting them over the border as a political move against the EU. Poland prevented the migrants from entering the country, posting riot police to supplement its border guards. By contrast, hundreds of migrants from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and other countries became stranded at the border between Belarus and Poland last year as thousands tried to get to Western Europe.