In Sid, located in northern Serbia, an agreement between authorities and the local population has been reached that will allow the children of migrants to attend school with Serbian children.
Infomigrants looks at the social cafe #RefugeesWelcome in Bogovadja, 70km from Belgrade. It provides a meeting place for asylum seekers at the town's transit center.
It's been two years since Germany took in hundreds of thousands of refugees. A fundraiser in southern Tunisia aims to build a cemetery for deceased migrants. In Serbia, we met Afghan refugee Karim who is the first person to be granted asylum in 2017. This and more in today's roundup.
After having spent eight months in Serbia as a refugee, Karim was the first person to be granted asylum by the Serbian authorities in 2017. Though a positive sign, the decision is bitter-sweet for this 29-year-old man from Afghanistan.
Over the last two years, Serbia has seen tens of thousands of migrants passing through the country. After Hungary and Croatia closed their borders, Belgrade has had to become better organized to welcome them, whilst hoping that the situation is only temporary.
Restrictions on family reunifications for refugees in Germany are set to continue. Over 700 children are being enrolled in schools in Serbia and InfoMigrants takes a look at how European policy makers are making impact on migrant routes. This and more in today's news roundup.
Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in the Refugee Aid Miksalište project manage a drop-in house for migrants in Belgrade. Through activities, workshops and language lessons, they bring a breath of fresh air to the inactive and discouraged migrants.
Some 700 children of migrants will begin the school year with local children on September 1st in Serbia. The first problem for them will be the language, as underscored by the Education and Technological Development Minister Mladen Sarcevic.
Refugees in Belgrade are banned from public spaces. An Iraqi family recounts the tragedy that befell them while traveling the Balkan route, and in Germany, refugees reflect on integration two years after Angela Merkel welcomed hundreds of thousands of refugees to the country. This and more in today's news roundup.
Overwhelmed by the arrival of thousands of refugees along the Balkan route in the summer of 2015, Serbian authorities are now trying to make their presence less and less visible. Refugees are prohibited from public parks as well as the city's embankments.
EU and African leaders are meeting in Paris to discuss the migrant crisis. The Sahara migrant route is found to be more deadly than the crossing of the Mediterranean and in Serbia, murky waiting lists determine who can cross the border into Hungary. This and more in today's news roundup.
Thousands of migrants in Serbia are waiting to cross the border into EU-member state Hungary. Their fates depend on informal “waiting lists” that determine the ten candidates permitted to leave Serbian territory per day. But the opacity of the system leaves ample room for irregularities.