Unfairy Tales, three short animations –true stories of the flight of children from conflict– explain the horror behind why they fled. One story – “Ivine and the Pillow” – animates the true story of 14-year-old Ivine and her pillow. After a perilous escape from Syria, Ivine settles at a refugee camp in Germany only to
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UNHCR Education Report 2022 – All Inclusive. The Campaign for Refugee Education
The 2022 UNHCR Refugee Education Report draws on data from more than 40 countries across the world, enabling UNHCR to paint the clearest picture yet of the state of refugee education – and illustrate how refugee children and youth are falling behind their non-refugee peers when it comes to access to an inclusive quality education.
Unimaginable Dreams
Written and directed by Marzia Jamili, a Hazara refugee now living in Sweden, Unimaginable Dreams is an auto-ethnographic essay film that traces Marzia’s last days in Athens, Greece. Blending documentary and fiction, Marzia casts her best friends to recreate magically real versions of her dearest memories of Athens as she delivers a cutting address to
The Swallows of Kabul
In hot Kabul, amidst the ruins of war, two men and two women search for the meaning of their lives: a fallen bourgeois, a lawyer forbidden to practice her profession, a prison guard annihilated in the shadow of public executions, a terminally ill wife. Through this search for human dignity, the torment of a nation
The Swallows of Kabul
In the summer of 1998, Kabul is under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mosen are young and in love, while Tariq, whose wife is seriously ill, supervises the women who are sentenced to death under Sharia law. A tragic incident will cross the lives of all of them in an unexpected, yet liberating way. The film
On the systematic rejection of family reunification applications by Germany
The legal note of Refugee Support of the Aegean (RSA) and PRO ASYL points out the systematic rejection of family reunification applications sent by Greece to Germany and their disastrous consequences for the rights of refugees. It examines the significant changes made in the last three years and the recent practices of the German authorities
Access to health services for refugees in Greece: lessons on inequalities
Over the past years, Eastern Greek islands have been entry points for (mainly Syrian) refugees coming to Europe. However, the Greek healthcare system has been inadequate, lacking equity of access. Volunteers have been providing care under hard conditions at refugee camps. Refugees face common health issues such as communicable diseases, trauma-related injuries, and mental health
Integrating Refugees Can Strengthen Greece’s Health System
Health focus and funding in Greece needs to shift from an emergency response centered on NGOs, toward building a more comprehensive and inclusive national health system, argues the writer, Lenio Capsaskis. Focusing on integrating healthcare services is an important step toward wider social integration and requires strengthening of the health system, streamlined policies by the
On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
On the Doorstep of Europe is an ethnographic study of the asylum system in Greece, tracing the ways asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability that emerge through this legal process. Cabot charts the structural violence effected through European governance, rights frameworks, and humanitarian intervention
What is happening today in the refugee camps on the Aegean islands
RSA and PRO ASYL report on the situation in the Closed Controlled Facilities on the five islands of the Eastern Aegean. It is based on fieldwork between 15 February and 31 March 2023, in Lesvos and Kos and on telephone interviews. The data reported were collected from RSA’s cases, its experience and communications with other