Journey in the Balkans to meet exiles and groups supporting them
To great fanfare figures , the authorities have announced a joint police operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Kosovo and Slovenia, which led to the arrest of 24 people accused of having smuggled 15 people in Slovenia. According to police, it...
For years, Greek agriculture live from the work of migrant workers , often undocumented . Use made of low wages, not always paid , bad working conditions and precarious life , and violence against those trying to enforce its rights . That was the case...
Turkey has adopted a new law on asylum, in any ambiguity. http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2013/04/20130411-2.htm? Turkey is a signatory to the Geneva Convention, but with a geographical limitation clause: only nationals of member countries of the...
After Zeus hospitable , operation OF raids and detention of illegal aliens , it was Thetis raid of drug users to take them to detention centers for foreigners, where they underwent a forced medical examination before being released, and back to the city...
Readmission agreements between the EU and Serbia provided the framework for the return of nearly 9,000 people in the last seven years, mainly FROM Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. Much are Roma . Some have spent more than ten years in the host...
Following news evictions of Roma people, the European Roma rights centre publish a press release which present the situation : "Serbia: Romani Families Face Uncertain Future One Year After Forced Eviction of Belvil Informal Settlement 26 April 2013 Budapest,...
The report of a witness about the situation in the police station Drapetsona in Piraeus : " I feell totally obliged to speak about the things I witnessed with my very own eyes at the Police Station of Drapetsona, a close-to- the city- port neighborhood...
Following numerous reports on the alarming increase of xenophobic violence, the Greek government announced the passing of a new law increasing the penalties against racist remarks and actions. But legislation already exists: it is simply not applied....
Following the increase in racist crime , the government proposed a new law tightening sanctions. This text had raised doubts , the existing legislation is not enforced anyway . But it also contained some ambiguities , such as "inciting hatred and struggle"...
While racist violence continues , Doctors of the World took up the example of a 14 -year -old Afghan savagely assaulted at the exit of the Athens metro : http://www.medecinsdumonde.org/Presse/Communiques-de-presse/A-l-International/Grece.-Attaque-raciste-trente-points-de-suture-au-visage-d-un-enfant-afghan-de-14-ans.-Medecins-du-Monde-s-indigne-et-se-mobilise-contre-la-xenophobie...
The Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights protests against the conditions of detention of forty Algerians in Busmantsi detention center , near Sofia. They would have been there for five months. Consulate of Algeria does not care about their...
Bosnia and Herzegovina has just opened a reception center for asylum seekers , with the financial support of the European Union. The dimensions of this center , 150 seats, remind us that the region has become a transit to the EU , but that BiH will be...
Announced, then withdrawn , it seems that the adoption of a law about the worsening repression and racist acts is confirmed in Greece. At the same time , in Thessaloniki , a teacher is accused of Islamic propaganda for making her students study the text...
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia have signed on 13 September a regional cooperation agreement on security. Between organized crime and terrorism, one of the concerns is the "false asylum seekers", apple of discord between the European Union...
On the New blog Exiles in the Balkans http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ On April 18, 2013, a farmer from Nea Maolada and his guards shot with huntguns on Bangladeshis farm workers came to claim their unpaid wages, injuring twenty eight of them....
On the new blog http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ Global detention project aims documenting the use of detention as a response to global migration. The profile for Greece has been updated. After a general description of the Greek policy both at...
Following Denmark, Belgium has decided to suspend the return of asylum seekers to Bulgaria under the Dublin III Regulation, following the recommendations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The Dublin III Regulation determines...
On the new blog Exiles in the Balkans : http://exilesinthebalkans.wordpress.com/ On the website lemonde.fr, two visuals on the border area with Turkey and about the situations of the exiles (in French) : ... Mamadou Bah obtained refugee status in Greece...
Romania not really aware that it has become a country of immigration , it is already experiencing turpitudes . 78 women from the Philippines and assign their employer to court. Recruited in the Philippines by an intermediary , they signed a contract to...
From Migreurop network : Arad camp (Romania) : "We are in hell" detainees stories collected by Migreurop on the 08/03/2012 « We need help, we are more than fifty detainees in the Arad detention centre, Romania. We are asylum seekers and they put us in...
There are two main ways to enter Greece from Turkey. The first Greek islands are just a few kilometers from the Turkish coast. This was the main route to the exiles until the coastguard of Frontex are deployed there to reinforce the Greek border guards....
When the temperature dropped to -25 ° in Serbia, the state of emergency was declared and some exiles from the jungle of Subotica were housed in a former hotel in Palic, about ten miles away. But this humanitarian measure proved to be a trap: the weather...
Karim has spent two years in Britain before being deported to Greece. His friends nicknamed him "Captain. " He often tells them that one day a big ferry will take them all. On the ferry, everyone will have a job, he will captain, will be another mechanic,...
New journey in the Balkans, to bring back fresh news. A few days in Bucharest on the road to Istanbul. Romania is traditionally a country of emigration rather than immigration. In fact, immigration is small and inconspicuous. It is also recent, since...
The figures come from a study of Anadolija agency, estimates that 10 million citizens of the Western Balkans (former Yugoslavia except Slovenia, plus Albania) live outside the region, which represents 30% of the population. The European Union is a major...
