In Nigeria, there is no job, no good life – Russia World Cup migrants vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
23-year old Gambian man Lamin, an assumed name, sits on a bench during an interview with AFP on the outskirts of Moscow on February 27, 2019.The 23-year-old Gambian shares the two-bedroom flat with nine other people — the youngest a newborn baby girl, the daughter of a Congolese flatmate.
A church friend told him Russia would be easy to enter during the period it was hosting the football tournament.“I was confused, I had no place to stay, the situation was tough,” he said. There is little hope, however, of it being granted. Official figures show that in 2017, Russia gave full refugee status to just 33 people.The “Fan IDs” were originally valid just for the period of the World Cup, but President Vladimir Putin later announced they could be used for re-entry until the end of 2018.
Daniel, who has worked with African migrants in Moscow for 10 years but did not want to give his last name nor where he works for fear of repercussions, said the World Cup had brought the biggest wave of arrivals he had ever seen.“Most don’t speak Russian, and without Russian, the chances are very small of finding a job.”
He is “very worried” about the interior ministry’s March deadline, but says he has no plans to leave of his own accord.A few in extreme circumstances have been granted leave to stay beyond March.
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