Trapped


  • Photographer
    Nikos Pilos
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Freelancer
  • Date of Photograph
    10/2015, 02/2016

There is no relief for migrants even when they survive the deadly journey to Europe. They still risk beatings and tear gas filled clashesusually due to delays in the registration processfrom border control law enforcement during their long arduous journey by foot under extreme weather conditions to reach northern Europe. Now, they can not travel beyond Greece, as border control has tightened up in fear of migrant invasion and terrorism. They are trapped. In February 2016, FYR Macedonia erected a second fence becoming the 12th countryalong with Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Estonia, Ukraine, Spain and Turkeyin the European continent to fortify its border joining Greece. As Europe seals its borders by building razor-wire fences to block the influx of migrants, xenophobia and nationalism poisons the open borders policy and the democratic values of Europe.

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