Journey in the Balkans to meet exiles and groups supporting them
The term "refugee" is generally understood as referring to Serbia the Serbs of Bosnia and Croatia who fled to Serbia during the war. Kosovo Serbs from Serbia are the ones designated as "internally displaced". Serbia is traditionally a country of emigration....
Many Roma from Kosovo took refuge in Germany during the war. Now they are returned, after spending 10 years or more. Their children were educated in German, are sometimes born in Germany. As the Roma in Kosovo are often seen as having collaborated with...
After Banja Koviljaca and Bogovada, the Serbian government plans to open a third reception center for asylum seekers in a former barracks in Mladenovac. As soon as the project known, residents voiced their opposition to the arrival of foreigners near...
Following the déclarations of a Parliament member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn asking that children of undocumented immigrants are excluded from public nurseries, the Vice-Minister of Interior, Evripidis Stylianidis, sent a letter to municipalities Crete...
On January 6, a young 18 years old Afghan is found shot multiple stab wounds in Athens. Suspicions turn to the Golden Dawn, whose violent actions are becoming more and more frequent. January 11 is issued a judgment of the court of Igoumenitsa, in north-western...
A mission of Doctors Without Borders visited the islands of Samos, Leros and Simi, 30 August to 4 September, following information related to an increase of exiles arriving there. These three islands are located in the Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast....
While attacks by extreme right groups against migrants multiply, and become almost daily in Athens, and that police violence continue, the reactions are emerging. Demonstrations against racism held in Athens, Patras Alexandroupolis, Ioannina, Thessaloniki,...
September 7, thirty activists, including several Parliament members, of the Golden Dawn, the neo-Nazi party represented in the Parliament since the last elections, raided a market in the town of Rafina, about thirty kilometers from Athens. They forced...
The Open Access campaign ask for the openning of the detention centres to the civil society as a guaranty to the right to know what happens inside, and a way to support the rights of the persons locked up inside http://www.openaccessnow.eu/ From the Open...
Like other countries of the European Union, Slovenia is implementing austerity measures. Thus, a decrease of 15% of salary for civil servants. The interior minister announced the halving of the allocation of asylum seekers, and he promises that there...
On December 15, a boat carrying exiles sank in the Aegean Sea near the island of Mytilene. 16 dead, 11 missing, 1 person rescued by the Coast Guard. A new drama which shows the adaptation of the paths of exile to the constraints imposed by the tightening...
A young Iraqi man was attacked with knifes Sunday, August 12 when he was coming from an improvised mosque. His attackers were on a motorcycle and had assaulted before two immigrants who succeeded to escape. He died a few hours later in the hospital. According...
Last year, Bulgaria has given Bulgarian citizenship to over 20,000 nationals of neighboring countries. This year, it continues its search for candidates for citizenship. She is in a paradoxical situation: country of emigration, it runs out of manpower...
The Greek government announced a plan for construction of 30 detention centers for illegal aliens, with a capacity of 1000 persons each. This Pharaonic plans as the pectacular raids which recently occurred in the center of Athens, respond to the threat...
As part of the campaign "Open access" launched by the Migreurop, journalists have sought access to the retention center of Arad March 21, without success. The same day a demonstration was organized by the initiative group "Solidaritate cu migrantii" in...
Immigration in Romania consists mainly of students and workers, about 60,000 people. Most workers are in fact posted workers, that is to say that the employment contract does not depend on the Romanian legislation. Many are lured by promises of compensation...
She spent several years in Iran, was in high school, studied English, could not go to university. She wears a scarf to cover her hair. She has heard that there are problems in France while wearing the headscarf. Could she go to college? Yes, for now,...
A report funded by the Open Society Institute Sofia highlights the lack of information on their rights and the lack of translation in a language that they understand the exilees held in detention centers for foreigners in Bulgaria, Busmantsi near Sofia,...
They arrive in Turkey looking towards the West, even if they have to stay ten years they are still hoping to leave. Arriving in Greece, given the situation: never mind, Greece is not Europe, it is enough to go, and it's Europe! You know the rest, from...
An article about the situation at the maritime border to question the whole of the European migration policy, conceived not in terms of alleged malfunctioning, but rather considered in its consistency: "Deterrence by drowning: Fortress Europe and its...
Wall construction, infra-red cameras, deployment of 2,000 additional border guards, construction of new detention centers: this is the situation at the Greek-Turkish border. There is no austerity when it comes to war against migrants and the European...
Reports are multiplying on migration and asylum in the Balkans. Just published the Jesuit Refugee Service about the asylum system of Croatia and Macedonia. http://www.jrseurope.org/news_releases/Balkanspressrelease2013.htm About Croatia before its entry...
The coming of winter, but especially the first echoes of the situation in the national and international media, pushed the Serbian government to act: a first shelter for asylum seekers and refugees was requisitioned in Obrenovac two others must be in...
A petition from the Greek network "Expel racism" to suppport an activist sued by somebody closed with the Golden Dawn party : https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Na_athoothei_o_antifasistas_Thanasis_Koyrkoylas_We_demand_that_antifascist_militant_Thanasis_Kourkoulasbe_aquitted/share/...
Bulgarian activists already said it two years ago: the entry of Bulgaria into the Schengen area would cause the arrival of a large number of refugees, which would lead to violent reactions from the extreme right. In fact, we will not have to wait entry...
