A Bangladeshi man has died trying to reach France from Greece via the 'Balkan route'. Human smugglers reportedly left the deceased man's body in a hilly area near the Albania-Montenegro border.
Many Bangladeshis who come to Cyprus hoping to find work end up in refugee camps in the EU country. They blame human traffickers for their ill fate.
Sayem, a Bangladeshi migrant in Bosnia and Herzegovina, told InfoMigrants that he was mistreated by Croatian border police. Investigative outlets have documented many similar testimonies in recent years.
The Kikinda camp in Serbia is home to around 550 migrants, including around 100 from India. One of them is Kumar, who cooks Biryani for his fellow South Asians.
Mohammad decided to attempt the dangerous route to Europe rather than pay a bribe of thousands of euros for a job in Bangladesh. Three years later he is in Bosnia’s Lipa camp, still hoping to reach the EU.
While many Bangladeshi migrants were able to flee from Ukraine after Russia invaded the country, some are still stuck in the country and fear for their lives. InfoMigrants spoke to people who had been given deportation orders and are now stuck inside detention centers.
Officials in Serbia say more people from India have been joining migrants from other South Asian countries in trying to reach the EU by irregular means over the past few months.
At least 8,667 Bangladeshi citizens entered the European Union (EU) last year through irregular routes. According to the statistics by Frontex, the South Asian nation remains one of the top countries whose citizens try to enter Europe via dangerous irregular routes. Many of them choose to stay in Italy.
Over the past twelve months Germany deported more than a hundred Bangladeshi migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected. Many other failed asylum seekers have voluntarily left the European country with financial support from the authorities in this period.
As Germany resumes deporting failed asylum seekers after a slowdown during the pandemic, fear is growing among hundreds of Bangladeshi migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected.