Journey in the Balkans to meet exiles and groups supporting them
Athens observed over the streets. It can be seen as a European capital on the world, with migrants from other continents. Some we meet doing their shopping, returning home, taking the subway. Others seen washing the windshields of cars, gleaned from scrap...
Visiting Afghan hunger strike. They camped for 4 months at the center of Athens, to the university. They are about 90 and turns 10-day fast for 10 days, some people sew their lips. They are seeking asylum in Greece, have the "red card" temporary residence...
Day shared between the districts where the exiles are gathered and the football field. You can see in these districts a large number of travel agencies for Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, or less often Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, traces of an earlier immigration,...
I directed my steps towards the bazaar and the area Kumkapi. This is an old Armenian quarter, which in the 90's became the place of the exiles from the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. Its upper part is a pile of various stores, while its lower part...
New visit to Afghan Hunger Strike. They are convened in small groups before the Committee on asylum, which will decide whether or not they obtain refugee status. Some expect this appointment for 10 years. The process of claim includes an initial interview...
Issues related to borders, immigration and refugees, are little discussed in Bulgaria, the issues and the situation is largely unknown. The demonstrations at the command center of the border police to Svilengrad, Turkish and Greek borders, and to the...
Banja Koviljaca is a small town of 6,000 inhabitants located on the border with Bosnia Herzegovina, which it is separated by a fast flowing river, the Drina. This is the oldest spa town in Serbia. Although this activity was reduced, it still hosts the...
Our group split up, others go directly to the Greek-Turkish border, I am by Patra and Athens. Day off in Igoumenitsa, today is the first day of Lent holiday in Greece, and our friends plan a party. But walking the city I come of course across on some...
A public debate on the theme "EU Migration Policy: A Push Back for Migrants’ Rights in Greece?" is organised by PICUM, Amnesty International, European Network Against Racism, Médecins du Monde and The European Network of Migrant Women Thursday, 20 March...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ 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....
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ A report under the MIDAS project advanced illegality and ineffectiveness of detention extended beyond 18 months, while another of the European Committee for the Prevention...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ Bulgaria has built a fence at its border with Turkey and continue to push back exiles, like Syrians, which try to cross the border, as shown by the testimonies collected by...
New posts on http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ On the occasion of a legislative debate, the government proposes an amendment providing to deport foreigners filing a complaint against the police or coastguard if the complaint is dismissed. When...
On the new blog P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }A:link { } http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ During summer 2009, a long struggle united together exiles, inside and outside the Pagani detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos, and Greek and international...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ From the entry into Europe through Greece and Bulgaria to Paris squats through black labor in the fields of southern Italy, Tracing Movements not only reflects the conditions...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ 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...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans: http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ Cyprus places non-EU foreigners and particularly refugees in a particularly precarious situation. Access to nationality, labor market and other rights is indeed hampered for...
With the intensification of control of the maritime border between Greece and Italy and the spiraling aggravation of the situation of foreigners in Greece, Hungary and Slovenia are countries entry into the Schengen area (Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ As winter makes it difficult living conditions in the camps, either in Subotica, near the Hungarian border, or in the encampments where asylum seekers awaiting admission to...
During summer 2009, the No Border Camp held on the island of Lesbos, a few kilometers from the Turkish coast, was the occasion of a struggle of several months led to the closure of the retention center of the island, Paganni. In October 2013, a group...
After losing ground on its most repressive practices against asylum seekers, including refoulement in Serbia, Hungary has passed a new law came into force on 1 July, which pushed back their rights. A note in English from Hungarian Helsinki Committee summarizes...
Arrivals of exiles on the Greek islands continue. On Lesbos, 40 people on 28 February, 37 on March 1rst, 43 on March 2d. The detention center of the island, near the village of Moria, has been downloading, and selforganised center PIKPA welcomes those...
The exiles are now entering Greece mainly through land border between Greece and Turkey, the passage through the islands are virtually deserted - a situation that can still change with the strengthening of controls over the land border. Once past the...
Last ride in Athens before taking the bus to Istanbul. I discovered the "Chinatown", a small area near the central market, where most shops are run by Asians. Street trades are not the sole preserve of foreigners. The Greeks are also present with the...
My colleagues go through Athens on their way to Patras. So we meet and take stock on what we've seen each other. Here are a few words about their journey and in Thrace near the Greek-Turkish border. A Orestiada, city close to the main crossing point of...
