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Of Duccio Facchini And Manuela Valsecchi (report published with permission from Other economics.It is possible to support Altreconomia here with a donation or subscribe to the magazine) “Everyone knows what happens around here:the Croats who beat us if we try to cross the border, Europe which rejects us.What do you want me to tell you?”.Zakaria is a young Afghan man of Hazāra ethnicity who left Kabul.He reached the town of Velika Kladuša, in the Una Sana Canton, in the North-West of Bosnia and Herzegovina.At the beginning of November he is here, alone and blocked in an informal settlement in the open air called "Helicopter":there is no landing strip but only mud and a few trees.The rest of his family is in Sweden.He, who was brutally rejected several times by Croatian officers when he tried to cross the woods, considers himself lucky:“Next to me there is a partner who has a wife and three children in tow,” he says, point...

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Musa Balde was 23 years old and born in Guinea:on the night of Saturday 22 May he took his own life in the Repatriation Center (CPR) in Turin, where he had been locked up in medical isolation for some time.Last May 9, in Ventimiglia, he was attacked by three men.They beat him with sticks, kicks and punches outside a shopping centre, accusing him of an attempted theft of a mobile phone. Musa had been taken to the Bordighera hospital due to the consequences of the beating which had caused him injuries and facial trauma.But Musa was also, or perhaps above all, an undocumented migrant.An expulsion order was pending against him.And by a strange mechanism this status erased his condition as a victim.Once released from the hospital, Balde was decided to be...

Last May, images of Kenmure Street in Glasgow went around the world.A peaceful protest he blocked the Home Office van (the British Ministry of the Interior), which arrived to pick up two immigrants.People continued to flock throughout the day, until the two were released. Nothing is more beautiful than solidarity. In response to a Home Office immigration raid during Eid, the people of Glasgow mobilised, fought back and got their neighbors released 💕pic.twitter.com/OnQscqN6Dr — Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) May 13, 2021 Similar mobilizations do not arise suddenly, due to a surge of solidarity and word of mouth through social media.Instead, they arise from front-line community activism to support asylum seekers and migrants, and against the practice of surprise raids – the dawn raids. Already since the end of April, the Scottish Refugee Council in Glasgow raised the alarm about the possibility that the raids were being used as an eviction tactic, thus affecting t...

Of Alia Alex Čizmić On March 4, in a wooded area near Saborsko, a Croatian village about 40 km from the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, a migrant of still unknown nationality lost his life after coming across an anti-personnel mine. According to Andreja Lenard, spokesperson for the Karlovac police, the administrative region to which Saborsko belongs, four other people, including two Pakistanis, were injured. One would be in danger of dying. That fatal mine was one of approximately 17,000 still present in Croatia, according to data from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior.Saborsko, the victim of a massacre in which 29 people were brutally killed on November 12, 1991 during the war that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia, is one of the 46 contaminated municipalities. The problem of unexploded mines also concerns Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 617 people have died accidentally or in demining operations since the end of the war.The Mine Removal Center of Bosnia and Herzeg...

Migrants beaten by masked Croatian police officers and forced to return across the border into Bosnia.It is the picture that emerges from the testimonies and videos reported in a published article last November 18th from Der Spiegel which reconstructs the attempt of several people fleeing their countries to cross the border between Bosnia and Croatia to reach Western Europe. For years, asylum-seekers have been claiming abuse at the hands of Croatian border police, with some reporting beatings and electric shocks.For the first time, videos in combination with reporting by DER SPIEGEL have confirmed some of these reports. https://t.co/JyiWoX9s8i — SPIEGEL English (@SPIEGEL_English) November 18, 2020 Der Spiegel tells what happened to "Ibrahim", a young Pakistani man who left Kashmir two years ago, based on his words and independent verifications:on a cold day at the end of March, along with other migrants, he was forced by alleged Croatian police men wearing a...