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Eight Million Algerians Want to Come to Britain, Poll Finds

December 13, 2008 by BNP News

About eight million, or nearly half of Algeria’s young men, want to migrate illegally to Europe and specifically Britain, a poll published Wednesday said.

The poll, published by the independent daily Liberte, showed that 49.5 percent of Algerian men aged 15 to 34 wanted to immigrate illegally. Most respondents said Britain would be their favourite final destination because, they claimed, residence permits are easiest to get there.
Half of these said they were “certain” they’d try to leave. The second half said it was “likely” they would attempt to reach Europe, despite the risks linked to crossing the Mediterranean Sea in a flimsy boat.

More than 80 percent of those wanting out cited “fleeing the country” and “building a future” as their motive to migrate, the newspaper said.
It reported that four out of five Algerians knew of someone who had already left without the required passports or visas, or was soon planning to do so.
The poll was conducted in early November by two experts who previously worked for the National Office of Statistics. It was based on face-to-face interviews with 1,364 young men across 14 regions that make up Algeria’s Mediterranean coastline - the most populous zone in the country. No margin of error was given, but it would be plus or minus three percentage points for a poll of that size.

There are no exact figures of how many people migrate illegally from Africa to Europe, but tens of thousands are thought to attempt the journey each year. Most observers consider the trend to be on the rise, but the poll published Wednesday was one of the first to try to quantify the phenomenon.

The tiny island of Lampedusa off Sicily’s coast, for instance, received 12,169 migrants last year and more than 28,000 so far this year.

Six hundred people arrived in Lampedusa on last Friday alone. (Image: Algerians in a street in Paris.)

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