5 Worst Nations For Black Immigrants

Saudi Arabia Over the last two months, there have been a number of media reports regarding the inhumane treatment of African immigrants in Saudi Arabia, including atrocities against Ethiopians detained in concentration camps. Since November 2013, several Ethiopians have been killed or beaten and over 100,000 have been forcefully deported from Saudi Arabia. Below is a video of Saudis beating Ethiopian immigrants. Israel In the state of Israel, African immigrants have been labeled "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists, including by Benjamin Netanyahu, the current prime minister. Approximately 60,000 immigrants from African countries – particularly Eritrea and Sudan, which make up the lion’s share at some 90 percent of the total – have entered Israel in recent years through the Sinai Peninsula. This has led to fears that the Jewish character of the country of 7.8 million is being threatened, as stated by Netanyahu in a speech in May 2012. Below is an amateur video highlighting the inhumane treatment of African immigrants in Israel. Dominican Republic A court in the Dominican Republic recently stripped thousands of people of Haitian descent of Dominican citizenship. However, this is only one example in a long history of inhumane treatment of Haitians at the hands of their Dominican neighbors. Experts warned that the Dominican court decision to strip citizenship from children of Haitian immigrants could cause a human rights crisis, potentially leaving tens of thousands of people stateless, facing mass deportation and discrimination. A U.N.-backed study released this year estimated that there are nearly 210,000 Dominican-born people of Haitian descent that would be affected. China China's Guangdong province has drawn hundreds of thousands of immigrants from across Africa in the last decade: from Burkina Faso and Somalia, Ivory Coast and Ghana, Tanzania and Angola, reports the U.K. Guardian. African immigrants complain they are targeted in random raids, with police demanding passports from any Black faces present. In recent years, there has been an immigration crackdown that has alienated many and left young men injured and languishing in detention, community leaders say. "You go home: the police are knocking on your door. You are on the street: police will hold you. You are on the bus, inside a restaurant – it's everywhere," says Ojukwu Emma, president of the Association of the Nigerian Community, whose compatriots account for almost half the migrants. Ironically, Chinese officials are cracking down on African immigrants while over 2 million Chinese have emigrated to the African continent in the last decade. Italy Many white Italians view the Afro-Italian community and other immigrants as cheap labor or petty criminals. This is partly because many immigrants work as domestic help and farm laborers, or sell counterfeit goods on the streets of big cities, says a recent Reuters report on African immigrants in Italy. Moreover, children born to immigrants do not automatically receive citizenship, even if they are born on Italian soil, attend Italian schools and spend their whole lives in Italy. They must wait until they turn 18 to apply. Though Italy was a colonial power in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries and migrants have come to Italy for decades, the country has mainly served as a transit route for the rest of Europe and so remains an overwhelmingly white. Over the past two decades, another factor has thwarted attempts to develop a comprehensive and inclusive immigration policy: the anti-immigration Northern League, once a key ally of ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's former coalition governments. Against the background of television images of overcrowded boats being rescued off Italian shores, Northern League politicians portray immigrants as invaders coming to steal jobs - rhetoric that ignores Italy's history as a country of emigrants to North and South America in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was high-ranking Northern League member Roberto Calderoli who likened Italy’s first Black minister, Cecile Kyenge, to an orangutan this year. Members of the neo-fascist Forza Nuova, or New Force, party were suspected by police of throwing bananas at her during a public round table on immigration.

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