Balcani

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...