Arabian community in Bulgaria

Information and missing information

Ruslan Trad

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Arabian world

• Consists of 25 countries and in the most of them the Arabian language is official. They are mainly countries from North Africa and West Asia.

• The population is 368 million people.

• The Arabian language is a social, economic and political organization of the Arabian countries.

Paths

What does the Arabian community in Bulgaria represents?

• It consists of Arabians from different countries. The largest amount of Lebanese, Syrians, and Iraqis.

• Students and traders

• Just from the past few years there is a Settlement of this community in Bulgaria.

• One of the oldest communities choose to live in Bulgaria - more than 40 year history.

Имиграцията в България

• The different assessments could be summary:

• The count of the legal immigrants is nearly

108 000 people, naturalized - 3600, residents –

40 000, temporarily residents - 64 000

• The official registration of the political asylum

people and refugees in Bulgaria begun at 1991.

• The count of the people who officially

requested political asylum status

between 1994 - June 2001

is 7029 people from 66 countries. The count of the

illegal residents in Bulgaria is between 30 000 and

50 000 people.

Numbers

• There are different numbers - according to the Anna Krasteva`s “ The immigration to Bulgaria” book, NSI points that in 1992 the Arabians are 5438.

• According to other data ( Wikipedia ) they are nearly 10 000 in 2004 and there are a lot with dim status.

• According to police data the long time resident and the permanent resident Syrians are nearly 3000 in 2001 and the permanent resident lebanoniansare 625.

• It is unclear why NSI does not include this kind of data in the National statistics.

The different communities

• The Arabian community consists of different kind of communities - Syrian,Iraqi, Algerian, Egyptian etc.

• Their count depends a lot of the condition of the country they are comingfrom.

• The immigration streams are and will be from least developed muslimcountries - Near and the Middle East ( Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan,Palestine, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algerie, Egypt, Tunisia )

Organizations

• The Arabians are incorporated in organizations of their owncommunity - Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi etc.

• This organizations has a general organization representing thewhole Arabian community.

• There is a general meeting which includes all organizations.

• Every community has its own organization similar to Syrianassociation in Bulgaria, Lebanese association etc.

• There are no religious Arabian organization.

• In general Arabians are not included members in a localethnic parties.

• The organizations are caring for every member and his family,inclouding the coming students ones.

Community problems

Missing informatio

n in the Bulgarian society.

Legal problems -

from passports

and cards to property and commerce.

Getting visa and legal

documents difficulties.

Immigration difficulties.

Possible problemsThere is no tension between the local society and the immigrants, but there is possibility for tension in the feature.

Xenophobia

Islam phobia

Racism

Social discrimination

Exclusion

Misunderstanding about the terrorism problems

Ghettos

Guarantees

State protection

Need of State guarantees the

community immigration and refugees rights.

Need of community researches, statistic

researches

Law security and protection for refugees,

immigrants and the temporarily resident

Arabians.

Connection between state and immigrant

organizations

The Future

Better integratio

n

Dialogue

Understanding