Stranded In Greece - Greece Refugee Crisis


  • Photographer
    Gili Yaari
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016
  • Technical Info
    Digital

Where do we come from? Where are we heading? where do we belong? This series, part of a larger project, deals with migrant crisis in Greece. At some point, the human flow of migrants has turned into a bottleneck of people, leaving the migrants hanging, stranded, having no home to return to and no place to go. Greece has become a flashpoint for the migrant crisis in Europe over the past year. More than 1 million people illegally crossed into Europe in 2015 alone, with some 800,000 of them arriving via Greece. Most of the migrants were coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq but also from other countries. They are fleeing wars and violence in their home countries in hope for a better future.

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Where do we come from? Where are we heading? Where do we belong? This series, part of a larger project, deals with migrant crisis in Greece. At some point, the human flow of migrants has turned into a bottleneck of people, leaving the migrants hanging, stranded, having no home to return to and no place to go. They are dependent on NGOs and volunteers, coming from all over the world, who provide most of their physical needs including tents, food, medicines and physical treatment.

Greece has become a flashpoint for the migrant crisis in Europe over the past year. More than 1 million people illegally crossed into Europe in 2015 alone, with some 800,000 of them arriving via Greece. Most of the migrants were coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq but also from other countries. They are fleeing wars and violence in their home countries in hope for a better future.

The situation in Greece has grown complicated following a deal between the EU and Turkey in March 2016 that stipulates all new arrivals to Greece must either apply for asylum in the country or risk being sent back to Turkey. The agreement has caused a bottleneck of people, particularly along the border with Macedonia at a makeshift camp in the village of Idomeni but also in many other places along Greece. Makeshift refugee camps appeared along the country in Piraeus Port, gas stations and abandoned buildings. Greek authorities started establishing camps for the migrants, mostly in military camps, in order to accommodate migrants in those camps.

The future of these migrants is unclear.

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