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This series, reported from Belgrade, examines how illegal push backs of asylum seekers along the Balkan route are leaving refugees invisible and unprotected. We examine how closed borders and expulsions are pushing asylum seekers to take ever more dangerous routes to northern Europe, and leaving women and children especially vulnerable to exploitation.
More than 1,000 men and boys were living around Belgrade’s train station until their eviction in May. Now many of them, including hundreds of children traveling alone, are missing or vulnerable to trafficking in their desperation to reach northern Europe.
As borders have tightened along the western Balkan route to Europe, more lone female refugees are arriving in Serbia having experienced violence and trafficking. Many who want to continue their journeys are using even riskier routes and never appear in official data.
In the first part of our series ‘Europe’s Outsourced Refugees,’ we report from Belgrade on how illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers along the Balkan route are leaving refugees invisible and unprotected.
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