Exiles in Balkans

Faces of Europe - Lesbos 1

Involved in supporting exiles in Calais, Céline Barré went to their encounter on the Balkan route. She writes a chronical of what she observes. She allowed us to publish it. Picture of the face t...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/faces-of-europe-lesbos-1/

Faces of Europe - Lesbos 2

Following of the chronicle from Celine Barre on refugees in the Balkans. Lesbos - September 8 https://goo.gl/maps/j9HjMFESLC42 Europe's good kisses ... The arrival is scheduled at 8:30 am at little

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/faces-of-europe-lesbos-2/

Faces of Europe - Lesbos 3

Following of Céline Barré's chronicle on the road of the exiles in the Balkans. Lesbos - September 9. https://goo.gl/maps/j9HjMFESLC42 "I can see your passport? " Surprise for the first time this...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/faces-of-europe-lesbos-3/

Faces of Europe - Lesbos - Athens

Following of Céline Barré's chronicle on the road of the exiles in the Balkans. Lesbos - Athens 22h - September 13 https://goo.gl/maps/G7MsN5Dv2u92 Faces relieved, soothed. These faces have left the

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/faces-of-europe-lesbos-athens/

Faces of Europe - from Athens to Belgrade

Following of Céline Barré's chronicle on the road of the exiles in the Balkans. From Athens to Belgrade - September 14 https://goo.gl/maps/aCtJVd6CfsG2 Ana 28 people including 11 children and fou...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/faces-of-europe-from-athens-to-belgrade/

Faces of Europe - at the Serbian - Hungarian border

Following of Céline Barré's chronicle on the road of the exiles in the Balkans. Border between Serbia and Hungary - September 16 https://goo.gl/maps/ed85398TsUq " We don't want you here, understand

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/faces-of-europe-at-the-serbian-hungarian-border/

Faces of Europe - Horgos

Following of Céline Barré's chronicle on the road of the exiles in the Balkans. Horgos. Hungarian border - September 18. https://goo.gl/maps/ed85398TsUq 3000 people stranded at the border. A wall...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/faces-of-europe-horgos/

BULGARIA: TOWARDS AN EXTENSION OF THE WALL

Bulgaria, 7 million people, received ten thousand refugees in 2013, mainly Syrians. Bulgaria is the poorest country in the European Union, but the situation is to be compared to that of Lebanon, 4 ...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/bulgaria-towards-an-extension-of-the-wall/

GREECE: XENOPHOBIC CAMPAIGN OF THE OUTGOING PRIME MINISTER

Visit to the Evros wall, at the Greek-Turkish border, position against naturalization and welcoming new foreigners he accuses his opponent Syriza of wanting to increase, use of the attack against C...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/greece-xenophobic-campaign-of-the-outgoing-prime-minister/

GREECE: THE CHOICE OF RETURN HOME

After five years in Greece, a young Algerian immigrant decided to return to Algeria. A documentary that gives voice to the main person in the days before his departure. Video in English subtitled i...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/greece-the-choice-of-return-home/

GREECE: NEW SENTENCE UNDER THE ECHR

Greece was again condemned by the European Court of Human Rights, seized by fourteen exiles who had been locked in Fylakio detention center, near the Turkish border ( Greece has been convicted of t...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/greece-new-sentence-under-the-echr/

GREECE: SYRIZA AND IMMIGRATION

The positions of SYRIZA on immigration issues announced a radical change in Greek policy in this area. Time will tell what they become at the moment of exercise of power. Two articles (in French) o...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/greece-syriza-and-immigration/

CYPRUS: AUTHORITIES WANT TO CLOSE SYRIAN REFUGEE CAMP

Cyprus is a step for Syrian refugees. The country does not offer better reception, acceptance and integration conditions for refugees than Greece. They do therefore not apply for asylum, not to be ...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/cyprus-authorities-want-to-close-syrian-refugee-camp/

FROM TURKEY TO ITALY

The instability in Libya and politics in Egypt now hostile to the Syrian refugees bring them to alternate routes. To avoid being blocked in Greece or Bulgaria, they go more directly from Turkey and...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/from-turkey-to-italy/

KOSOVO: DEPARTURES ACCELERATE

The number of Kosovars leaving to the EU increases, the figures of 100,000 for 2014 and 50,000 since the beginning of 2015 are discussed, some projections suggest 300,000 starts in 2015. That's a l...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/kosovo-departures-accelerate/

BULGARIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ABOUT HATE CRIMES

In a new report, Amnesty International points to the inadequacy of the answers given by the Bulgarian authorities and justice face of increasing of hate crimes, that is to say crimes motivated by h...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/bulgaria-amnesty-international-report-about-hate-crimes/

GREECE: A POLICY CHANGE ?

Acquisition of Greek nationality by foreign children born in Greece or having lived most of their childhood, closure of detention centers and opening of open reception centers, end of Xenios Zeus o...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/greece-a-policy-change/

GREECE: THE UNHCR RENEWS ITS RECOMMENDATION NOT TO RETURN ASYLUM SEEKERS

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reiterated its recommendation not to return to Greece asylum seekers under the Dublin III Regulation. If UNHCR notes the changes made by the Greek ...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/greece-the-unhcr-renews-its-recommendation-not-to-return-asylum-seekers/

GREECE: NEWCOMERS IN LESVOS

Reflection of the Middle East crisis (the war settled in Syria and which starts again in Iraq), but also the closure of the land borders (erection of barriers, strengthening of controls, already ol...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/greece-newcomers-in-lesvos/

GREECE: DEMONSTRATION SYRIAN REFUGEES

Since November 19, about two hundred Syrian exiles camp outside the Greek parliament in Athens. Blocked in Greece, where they applied for asylum, they are left homeless and destitute throughout a p...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/greece-demonstration-syrian-refugees/

GREECE: HUNGER STRIKE IN DETENTION CENTERS

Detention conditions unworthy confinement, continued detention beyond the limit of eighteen months, and with no time limit, the recent death of two inmates by carelessness: the inmates of Amygdalez...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/greece-hunger-strike-in-detention-centers/

GREECE AND SYRIA: MIRROR GAME AROUND THE EXILES

On the occasion of the manifestation of Syrian exiles outside the Greek parliament, internet users remind that, following the Treaty of Lausanne and the population exchange that took place between ...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/greece-and-syria-mirror-game-around-the-exiles/

CROATIA: REPORT ON ASYLUM SYSTEM

New Member State of the European Union, Croatia is also country of entry in the EU for people who go to Central and Western Europe through the Western Balkans. It can therefore become the country r...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/croatia-report-on-asylum-system/

GREECE: STORY OF LEONIDAS THEOCHARIS

The Balkans is a region of interest in terms of migration. Passage region, sometimes completion, of migration came from outside of Europe, as such marked by European policy who want to lock. Region...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/greece-story-of-leonidas-theocharis/

GREECE: SYRIANS WHO DEMONSTRATE AND SYRIANS WHO DIE AT THE BORDER

Three hundred Syrians still demonstrate on Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the Parliament. They are there since November 19, some of them are on hunger strike since November 24. Solidarity i...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/greece-syrians-who-demonstrate-and-syrians-who-die-at-the-border/

CYPRUS: SYRIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS DEMONSTRATE

These Kurds, from Syria but stateless, sought asylum in Cyprus seven years ago, and their application has not been examined. They camp for a month outside the Ministry of Interior, and four of them...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/cyprus-syrian-asylum-seekers-demonstrate/

KOSOVO: MIGRATION TO FRANCE

In 1999, during the Kosovo war, many refugees have gone to Germany. Ten years after the conflict is over, it has massively deported them to has become independent Kosovo or to Serbia. Despite ten y...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/kosovo-migration-to-france/

GREECE: CALL FROM FOREIGNERS IN DETENTION TO MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The Open Access Campaign publishes the letter of a migrant locked up in Corinth detention center to the members of the European Parliament. The author of this letter has been now released, after do...

https://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/greece-call-from-foreigners-in-detention-to-members-of-the-european-parliament/

GREECE - ITALY : JOINT CONDEMNATION BY THE ECHR

Les condamnations de la Grèce pour traitement inhumain et dégradant s'additionnent. Celles d'autres pays pour renvoyer en Grèce aussi. Après la Belgique, l'Italie. Cette fois pour le refoulemen...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/greece-italy-joint-condemnation-by-the-echr/

GREECE: TRIAL AGAINST THE REBELS OF AMYGDALEZA DETENTION CENTER

In August 2013, inmates detention center Amygdaleza revolted against the length and conditions of confinement. Sixty-five of them were prosecuted. The trial of those who have not been expelled or h...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/greece-trial-against-the-rebels-of-amygdaleza-detention-center/

TURKEY: SINKING OF A BOAT OF EXILES AT THE EXIT OF THE BOSPHORE

Monday, November 3, a ship carrying about forty exiles was wrecked at the exit of the Bosphorus. At least 24 people died, including children. The ship was heading to Romania. Strengthening land bor...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/turkey-sinking-of-a-boat-of-exiles-at-the-exit-of-the-bosphore/

GREECE: REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN FUNDS FOR MARITIME BORDERS CONTROL

The entrance to Greece's land border with Turkey was made more difficult (deployment of ground units of the European agency Frontex, erection of a fence, technology enhanced control, back at the bo...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/greece-request-for-additional-european-funds-for-maritime-borders-control/

GREECE: A COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE REPORT

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published its report following its last visit to Greece. It focuses on police and coa...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/greece-a-committee-for-the-prevention-of-torture-report/

WESTERN BALKANS: SAFE COUNTRIES ACCORDING TO GERMANY

The German parliament decided to add Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia to the list of safe countries of origin. This list varies from one country to another, and included so far in Germany the other cou...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/western-balkans-safe-countries-according-to-germany/

BALKAN ROAD

After "Beyond Evros Wall" in 2012, the photographer Alberto Campi and the geographer Christina del Baggio just published "Balkan Road", a documentary made ​​of portraits of exiles on their way ...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/balkan-road/

SERBIA: THE FATE OF ASYLUM SEEKERS

Consequence of its place on the path of exiles on their way to central and northern Europe, but also the number of crises in the Middle East (after Syria, Iraq), Serbia sees the number of asylum se...

http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/serbia-the-fate-of-asylum-seekers/