Migrations Europe Macédoine Roms
Racial Profiling on Macedonia’s Borders?
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Roma claim a crackdown on the flow of asylum seekers into the EU has effectively barred them from leaving Macedonia.
by Ljubica Grozdanovska Dimishkovska 27 June 2012
SKOPJE| Djengis seems an unlikely candidate to seek asylum abroad. The 30-year-old Rom from Kumanovo in northern Macedonia is a working man, with a job doing manual labor, and a family man, the father of two. But when he tried to cross the border in mid-June to visit his brother in Serbia, he was turned back.
“I said I was planning to stay at my brother’s house for two weeks,” Djengis recalled of the encounter at the Tabanovce crossing. “The officer said I needed 1,000 euros, that I was supposed to have this money since I’m traveling to a foreign country. Then he said there’s some notation in the [border control] records, according to which I’m not allowed to leave Macedonia.”