Ed note. This is a guest post by Shaliz Navab a student at the University of Edinburgh. She was a manager of the Refugee Speaker Programme for the Scottish Refugee Council in Glasgow and on a temporary basis works with diaspora youth...
There are now some 10,000 people stranded in Greece at the border of Macedonia. The Macedonian government has all but shut its border, only letting a limited number of Syrians and Iraqis each day. Still, people are fleeing to Greece....
This teenage boy was an Afghan refugee in Iran. The chances of being accepted into Iran, being permitted to work and gain an education were extremely dim. “Even if we stay 100 more years, we would have no prospects or...