Therefore, it is no wonder that the Syrians have smartphone – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Many have reacted to pictures of newly arrived refugees in Kos that swings forward smartphone and taking a selfies.

The sour comments in social media has gained Thumbs and retweets. They may be in distress when most people have smart phones?

Jørgen Carling is a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and has worked with international migration for over ten years and is internationally recognized for his work. He notes that the Syrians are relatively wealthy.

– Resembling more of Norwegian life

– Everyday life in Syria before the war are more similar to the Norwegian refugees than perhaps we are used to from other places. Syrians who come are the relatively wealthy compared to many of the other refugees who have arrived earlier, for example, from sub-Saharan Africa or Afghanistan.

It does not mean they are less genuine refugees, he said.

– We often have a picture of refugees as very poor people who are struggling themselves off in torn clothes. Sometimes we react to that the mental image is not correct. But war affects the countries with high and low and medium prosperity and living standards and Syria is a country in the middle of the bed there, and it means that it is common with smartphones.

The need for contact with both those in the home country and relatives in Europe, is an important factor.
– From the Balkans, we know about Syrians who have traveled through the countries on their own. Just that they bring smartphones, making them less dependent on human smugglers because they are better able to find your own way.

For big help

– Otherwise we know also from poorer countries in sub-Saharan Africa for example, that technology is very important for migrants, communicating with relatives at home and in Europe. Even poor venturing towards Europe will prioritize spending money on a phone, it is something that can help them very much underway, says Carling.

– A slightly different things, but why run not they?
– They have no way to run. They will not be released through the crucial border crossings.

– And then there’s talk that they can ride with others. Right now there are exceptions conditions in Austria and Hungary makes you have set the common rules slightly to the side, but if as usual Austrian picks up a refugee family in Hungary and runs them to Austria so that they could seek asylum there, you risk to be prosecuted as a human smuggler.

The same could happen on the border in northern Norway, he says.
– Norwegians from Finnmark who meet refugees in Russia and bring them into the cars back to Norway, they risk being accused of human smuggling. Therefore refugees buy bikes and ride over itself, the Russians do not allow pedestrians across the border, says Carling.

‘; }); $ (‘#related -’ + WoId + ‘div.related_items’). Html (items); //saveElementAjax(Ext.get(woId)); }; $ (Document) .ready (function () {// if ($ (‘#docs’). Find (‘. Related container’). Size () == 0) $ .ajaxSetup ({cache: false}) ; $ .getJSON (‘http://www.kjendis.no/2.0/lib/relatedarticles.functions.php5?jsoncallback=?’, {limit: 4, tags: ‘news’, id: 123, articleID: 41002296} , fetchRelatedArticles);});