Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany

Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany

Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin’s Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.Many came during the huge migrant influx of 2015, when a million people arrived in a matter of months — mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.For barber Moustafa Mohmmad, 26, who fled the ruins of Syria’s Aleppo, it is a home from home, “a kind of Arab street” where he can find sweets from Damascus and Aleppo-style barbecue.

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