As we move into this new year, into 2025, we look at how the world is cracking down on migrants and asylum seekers, and the dangers they face as they flee their countries due to many conditions, from persecution to economic conditions to the climate crisis. In Greece, prosecutors have opened a murder investigation of,…
Greece is currently facing a “children’s emergency” due to the rising number of unaccompanied minors arriving in the country, particularly along a new trafficking route from Libya to Crete. This alarming situation has led non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to urge Greek authorities to take immediate action to ensure the safety and protection of these children. The…
You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta with its long legs and short, stubby wings that it uses in rare, short bursts of flight. But can bird wing shape…
Latest shipwrecks off Samos claim at least 12 lives. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by the recent tragic loss of life in the Aegean Sea. Most recently, at least 12 people, all women and children, have perished in two separate incidents off Samos island this week. On 25 November, 39 people were…
Following increased migration flows in 2015, the European Commission (EC) and the Greek government implemented new strategies and legislation to regulate mobility in the EU area. The impact of one of these strategies is especially important. The EC “European Agenda on Migration” was implemented by Greek Asylum Law 4375/2016 and followed up with subsequent legislation….
Civil society is commonly connected to the so-called “ third sector”, which is supposed to be differentiated from the state and the private, profit-oriented domain/market and is mainly associated with the existence and activities of various professional, welfare and religious non-profit organisations >>> Makrides, V. N. Contested Civic Spaces: A European Perspective, 22, 161 (2023)…
Tourism industry, one of the most dynamic industries worldwide is also one of the most vulnerable to crisis and disaster. This is mainly due to the fact that tourism is closely related and influenced by many external factors such as exchange rates, the political and economic environment, climate, and weather conditions. Tourism success is directly…
When Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team member Ismail had to leave his home country, Eritrea, he faced a dangerous journey to reach safety, crossing multiple countries and the Mediterranean Sea. In the months that followed, he faced detention, sickness, violence, and kidnapping, and saw many people who did not make it. Now he…
Yusra Mardini has still not fully recovered from her ordeal on the crossing from Turkey to Greece nine years ago in a boat packed with asylum seekers. ‘I have worked a lot with myself in order to deal with and navigate through everything that has happened to me and how it has impacted not just…
Paul Apostolidis, with roots from Lesvos, in his article in the New Lines Magazine describes how his recent ancestors arrived in America and draws parallels with the struggles of the so-called irregular immigrants and attitudes towards them. He also discusses the differences and how skin colour has facilitated the assimilation of Greek immigrants in contrast…