Refugees


  • The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

    The story contained in the ancient petrous bone is one of continuous movement – ancient people around the world mixing and merging. Physical differences, like skin color or height, are simply the shifting modifications of the human body reacting to different environments. Rather than homo sapiens, a more fitting name for us would be homo migratio.

  • Story of Ben

    Story of Ben

    “It is incorrect”, he tells the police officer, “I am 17, not 20!”. But the officer says, “I will tell you how old are you. nobody is a miner here!” He complains but the officer forcefully knocks on the door and drives them away. Ben says, instead of asking me “what my problem is?”, “what do I want?” and “why I’m here?”, they just want to prove how old I am!

  • Smuggling as a Collective Enterprise

    Bringing migrants to the Ethiopia-Djibouti border is not a simple task as there are several checkpoints along this migration route. Smugglers carefully work with different actors. They may secure support from border agents at various checkpoints, or they may use diverse transport strategies. Smugglers often transport migrants during the night, and they do not always take their clients by themselves, but instead use a variety of methods, depending on the context.

  • Greece: life in the Camps

    In the general view of Greek and EU authorities, controlled close camps or, more specifically on my side, imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too people who are ensconced in refugee management crisis and racism.

  • From Refugees to Clandestines

    Contemporary refugees in Greece are often viewed in negative and hostile terms. They are seen to represent a burden on the host country, and a particular source of discontent arises when refugees are perceived to have a better life than some of the Greeks themselves. While it is to the credit of the Greek news media that they apparently do not associate refugees with terrorists to the extent that the British press do, the perception that refugees enjoy better treatment by the state than Greek homeless people is a key source of political and social tension.

  • Story of LalehDokht

    Every day, I took them to school by myself. However, we were harassed by the Taliban. We were told that studying was not a girl’s job and that it was a sin. But I didn’t want my daughters to grow up the way I did. I wanted them to go to school. I wanted them to live a better life. I also lost my ability to work. Because of that, I left Afghanistan.”

  • Turkey as a refugee limbo

    The Republic of Turkey is a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, maintaining the geographical limitation to the 1951 Convention, thus retaining resettlement to a third country as the most preferred durable solution for refugees arrived due to the events occurred outside of Europe.

  • Να σταματήσουν οι ρατσιστικές επιχειρήσεις-σκούπα στο κέντρο της Αθήνας

    Το απόγευμα της 16ης Μαρτίου, μέσω των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης έμαθα για τις επιχειρήσεις ‘σκούπα’ της αστυνομίας κατά προσφύγων και μεταναστών γύρω από την πλατεία Βικτωρίας, κατά τις οποίες η αστυνομία έλεγχε τους ανθρώπους για χαρτιά. Στην περίπτωση που δεν είχαν έγκυρα έγγραφα, η αστυνομία τους έστελνε σε κέντρο κράτησης. Πήγα εκεί ως δημοσιογράφος για […]

  • Greece: Racist sweeping operations in the center of Athens

    On 16 March afternoon, through social media I learned about police sweeping operations against refugees and migrants around Victoria square, in which the police were checking people for papers. If people did not have valid documents, the police send them to a detention center. I went there as a journalist to report about this event. […]

  • Racism; Church is one of the main culprits!

    white supremacy, beliefs and ideas purporting natural superiority of the lighter-skinned, or “white,” human races over other racial groups. In contemporary usage, the term white supremacist has been used to describe some groups espousing ultra-nationalist, racist, or fascist doctrines. White supremacist groups often have relied on violence to achieve their goals. why?