Santi Palacios

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EUROPEAN DREAM (Archive)
Copyright Santi Palacios 2024
Updated Dec 2021
Location Gevgelija
Topics Borders, Documentary, Europe, Immigration, Migration, Migrations, Photography, Photojournalism, Refugee crisis, Refugees, Violence, War
Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary | 2015

 In 2015 more than a million people risked their lives by crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, and around 800,000 of them took the route across the Aegean Sea, from the coasts of Turkey to the Greek islands. Thousands of people mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, reached the islands coasts every day. Once on dry land, they had to make their way to the capital of the island to obtain permission from the authorities in order to continue towards central and northern Europe through the Balkan route, crossing Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and Austria before arriving to Germany and other Western European countries.
 Borders were constantly closed and reopened by national authorities due to political reasons and people were regularly blocked for days and weeks along different spots of the route.
 One of the main concerns for most of the people while crossing the Balkans was not to be registered by Hungarian police so they could leave that country and claim for asylum in other European countries, since the Dublin Regulation determined that the responsible Member State of an asylum seeker will be the state through which the asylum seeker first entered the EU.

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