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Feeding the flames: Golden Dawn and the extreme right in Western Europe
The current recession is taking its toll across Europe, unemployment is rising and the bite of austerity measures is increasingly being felt amongst Europeans, particularly the young, old, the...
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Blood amid the strawberries: Greece’s migrants and the struggle for dignity
By Alex Johnson According to Greek mythology as the beautiful but mortal Adonis bled to death in the arms of Aphrodite, the Goddess wept tears of small red hearts, or strawberries. If you’ve ever...
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“Swarms” from “the Jungle”: Calais and the new refugee reality
By Alex Johnson Make no mistake, what’s happening at the Channel Tunnel entrance in Calais is not a temporary crisis. This is not a short term problem, a blip before a return to regular programming....
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Morning at Moria: Hope and despair at a Greek centre for processing refugees
Grafitti outside Moria camp on the island of Lesvos. All photos by Smaro Pegiou. By Smaro Pegiou Last July, I had the opportunity to visit the Moria First Reception Centre (Moria camp) for asylum...
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Here at Moria Camp
By Karim Ani Dear Mom: There’s a strong wind blowing in from the south. This could make the seas choppy for inbound refugees, many of whom don’t know how to swim. In addition to illness and injury,...
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A Janus-faced Europe awaits refugees in 2016
In late summer, as the refugee trail led to the heart of old Europe, tents and shelters started popping up in parks and woods across the continent. Suddenly the new reality of Europe’s proximity to...
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The EU-Turkey Deal and its Nightmarish Face
By Minem Marouf Dear Friends, this is a call for help. I have been on Lesvos with #HumanityCrew leading a wonderful team of Palestinian volunteers providing psychosocial support among other assistance...
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Facebook, flyers and drone surveillance: information and politics in refugee...
The European refugee crisis highlights the competing interests of control and protection when dealing with irregular migration. States and refugees have opposing needs for information, while agencies...
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Losing souls to save face: the EU-Turkey deal
There are only six kilometres in the strait of Mytilene between Lesvos and the Ayvalik islands in Turkey. In the summer the deep blues of the eastern Aegean are complemented by a backdrop of lush green...
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Alone in the Sand: Syrian Refugee Children Abandoned by European Governments
“Syrian Refugee Children” Photo by Mehmet Bilgin In 1938, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton travelled to Prague. On the eve of the Second World War, he evacuated 669 mostly Jewish...
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Refugees Welcome (Except For Afghans)
By Shala Gafary The powers that be clearly have a major case of cognitive dissonance when it comes to Afghanistan. Day by day, the Taliban grow increasingly bold in their attacks and are projected to...
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Lives interrupted: impossible choices for Afghans in Greece
We saw the mob move towards us in the dimly lit night: twenty agitated men clutching sticks and stones. I grabbed Afsana’s hand and pulled her forwards, running down the railway track towards the...
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“Why does the media keep showing those same pictures?” A Greek host...
By Erika Frydenlund The storybook setting of Molyvos, on the serene island of Lesvos, Greece, makes it easy to overlook the profound changes to the community wrought by the Syrian refugee crisis....
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This is Moria…
By Erika Frydenlund and Luz Diaz Lesbos, Greece has been in the global news stream regularly since the 2015 refugee crisis when the island was inundated with boats upon boats of people crossing the...
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