eStoria Festival: The Balkan Migration Route

A decade has passed since European countries granted access to the European Union to more than a million people seeking protection and lacking travel documents. The temporary suspension of border controls was not simply a matter of goodwill on the part of the countries, but a decision that statesmen were forced to make when the number of people on the move due to the war in Syria rose beyond the limit that the European border regime could still contain. Ten years after that event, nationalist ideas are gaining momentum once again, and European migration policy, with the New Pact on Migration, is opening the door to systematic violations of fundamental human rights by establishing mass detention camps at the EU’s borders for asylum seekers. What has changed in the field of migration in the region over the past ten years, what are the lives of migrants and refugees like, and what lies ahead for us in the future will be discussed at the roundtable by Samer Arkawi, Abir Aljondi, and Aigul Hakimova.  The discussion will be moderated by Jure Gombač.

Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Organizer: ZRC SAZU

Simultaneous interpretation into Italian is available