KOSOVO: TOO MANY ASYLUM SEEKERS = FAST TRACK

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asylum, Balkans, exilés, Kosovo

Responding the increase in the number of asylum applications by citizens of Kosovo, Germany had decided to consider it as a safe country of origin. Following its lead Belgium has decided that the demands of the citizens of Kosovo would be processed in a fast track procedure. Two ways to handle expeditiously requests and reject them quickly and easily, and to use the asylum procedures to serve restrictive migration policies.

Article (in French) on Le Courrier des Balkans website :

http://balkans.courriers.info/article26787.html

 

 

TRACING MOVEMENTS – THE FILMS

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Balkans, borders, Bulgaria, exilés, Greece

Tracing Movements is a collaborative project of audio–visual research, which documents the political resistance to European migration policies and border closure.

http://tracingmovements.tumblr.com/about

Seven documentaries were made, four of which are online:

http://tracingmovements.tumblr.com/

Two concern the Balkans. “Patra dead end” refers to the situation and struggles of exiles in the Greek port of Patras, where they try to embark on ferries to Italy hidden in or under trucks:

https://vimeo.com/113134788

The other borders of Turkey with Bulgaria and Greece, gateways in the European Union, places of control and detention, and challenges of resistance struggles:

https://vimeo.com/113109728