Back & forth, and back again. 2020 European border and migration policy is making life difficult for people on move on the Balkan route. European migration policy has turned out to be a shameless game of ping-pong with migrants and refugees between, among others, Turkey and Greece, Greece and Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and […]
Category: Migration
Welcome but not too much, 2017
Welcome but not too much2017 Worldwide, more than 65 million people are fleeing war, terror, poverty or climate changes. An all time record. Although only a small percentage of these refugees make their way to Europe, the political discourse on migration and refugees hardly gets away from the sphere of “an evil to overcome collectively, […]
Balkanroute 2015
Balkanroute. 2015 As hundreds of thousands of migrants came into Europe in 2015, one of the most common ways for them to arrive in the EU was through the Balkan route. This report sketches the situation in North Macedonia, one of the transitcountries on this route which migrants and refugees where trying to cross on […]