In this re-run Jenn, Zack, and Alex Ward discuss Europe’s political meltdown over migration, which Zack got a firsthand look at during a trip to Hungary last week funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. They start by airing Zack’s interview with Ibrar Hussein Mirzai, a young migrant who made the harrowing journey to Hungary from Pakistan, and zoom out to explain how the anti-migration sentiment that made Ibrar’s journey miserable also produced serious political turmoil in Germany.
Some parts of this episode are a little out of date. The original ran in July 2018.
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The man we heard from in this episode, Ibrar, was also featured on NPR. You can hear more from him and see a picture of him in that story.
An in-depth look at Merkel’s migrant deal from the New York Times.
For more context on the Hungary-Germany relationship, Zack recommends this piece.
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