The Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) is a network of refugee communities in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 2010 by the Afghan Community in Greece, the Sudanese Refugees Association in Greece, the Somali Community in Greece and the Greek Forum of Migrants. GFR strives for equality, integration and participation of refugees in Greek […]
We hear about the landings of migrants on Italian shores every day in the news but nobody really knows how landings are structured and who are the players involved. Thus, we have interviewed Miriam Salussolia[1], former Save the Children official, to get a detailed overview of what a landing really looks like, from the sighting […]
With a population of around 16,8 million, in 2014 the Netherlands received 24.495 asylum applications and approved 18.900 of them. We interviewed Mr. Anes Rustempasic, project coordinator of the Dutch organization Humanitas in the city of Groeningen, about the integration process that follows the granting of asylum permits in the Netherlands. Founded in 1945, Humanitas […]
Rixensart is a small town of around 20,000 inhabitants in the prosperous Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The town hosts one of the seventeen Refugees’ Reception Houses managed by Fedasil (the Belgian National Agency for Asylum Seekers), which currently represents a shelter for around 100 migrants coming from very different areas of the world. […]
