Like so many of his compatriots Syrian refugee Sohaib al Raies risked everything for peace and security in the West. The 37-year-old computer graduate fled the bombardments of his home town near Damascus with his parents. A torturous journey through several countries culminated in an almost fatal crossing of the Mediterranean in an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat.
Sohaib ended up in Lyon, grateful to have survived the voyage and thankful to France for having accepted him as refugee. But his problems and his journey are far from over.
Opposition to refugee quotas softens in Europe’s old communist bloc http://t.co/KdHm06inAp pic.twitter.com/vz4A4NxHPF— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 23, 2015
In this edition of Reporter Anne Devineaux discovers the challenges refugees like Sohaib face in establishing themselves as fully integrated members of French society. Once given asylum they find themselves in an administrative and social no-mans-land in a host state that doesn’t seem
