The Republic of Macedonia is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. It shares its borders with one EU Schengen state, Greece, one EU non-Schengen state, Bulgaria, and three non-EU Schengen states, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. Even if the Republic of Macedonia applied for EU membership in 2004 and was granted the status of candidate country in 2005 , it has still not become a member state of the EU due to some difficulties link with (...)
Publications
This section brings together the network’s publications and tools, such as the various editions of the “Atlas of Migration in Europe”, the cartographic work or the collection of Briefs to inform and raise awareness as widely as possible on the network’s major themes or geographical areas of interest.
Articles in this section
Calais: 20 years of (in)hospitality
Atlas of Migration 2017
For 20 years, exiles transiting through the city of Calais and its vicinity have been confronted with police operations forcing them into areas with often inhuman and degrading living conditions. When these sites become too visible, they are systematically dismantled. This was the case with the Sangatte camp in December 2002, for a large part of the jungle in 2009, when squats and scattered settlements in Calais were closed in the winter of 2015, or when the slums surrounding the Jules (...)
Encampment and migrants wandering the streets of Paris (Paris, the new border-city?)
Atlas of Migration 2017
Public administrations or specialised agencies are not the only ones producing data: not for profit organisations and collectives supporting migrants also collect information that helps capture – in a very precise manner – what exiles endure.
Since 2014, thousands of exiles have been living on the streets of Paris. Most if not all of them gather, forming makeshift camps and squats to resist hunger, thirst or fear. The city police and the riot police force dismantle these camps using their (...)Dead and missing at sea Information guide for families and their supporters
A publication by Boats4People
Boats 4 People published on the 12th of May 2017, during the Sabir Festival, an information guide for the families of migrants –and their supporters- who died or went missing while crossing Central Mediterranean sea on their way to Italy.
This guide is now available in Italian, English, French, Arabic and Tigrinya (see also attachments below).
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 2014, more than 12 000 people lost their lives in the Mediterranean (...)The War on Migrants Continues - NGOs harassed in the Mediterranean
The Italian government, supported by EU member states, has reached a new step in the war waged against migrants, criminalizing the NGOs whose task is to rescue them in the Mediterranean.