BALKAN ROUTE -
REFUGEES ON HUNGARY'S BORDER FENCE
Hungary is building a 4-meter-high fence along the 110-mile long border with Serbia to stop refugees and migrants on Balkan land route, making an already perilous journey even harder.
A smile on the face of Al-ghanem from Syrian town of Ar Raqqah, sitting on a lawn with her two sons, shows her happiness being only 4-miles from her final destination. European union. 2.500 miles away from daily shelling and constant four-year war, a rough escape through Turkey, Greece and Macedonia, she is finally in Serbia, near the Hungarian border.
A small group of Syrians, Palestinians and Iraqis are waiting for the night to fall, so that they can run for cover through the endless fields of corn, pumpkins and sunflowers. Their only equipment is Google GPS navigation.
In constant fear of police patrols, they whisper, hiding in cornfields and river channels.
Some of them are caught by the Hungarian police and taken to the detention centers. Al-ghanem and her two sons were one of them. After day or two in the nearby detention center they are on their way to another asylum center in Hungary.
On the Serbian side of border there are more and more people escaping from the war and life-threatening environment to reach a place, where they finally feel safe. Without any help from the Serbian government, some residents help them with food and water in a makeshift camp at an abandoned brick factory in the outskirts of Subotica, with a meaningful name – Jungle.
July, 2015
©Matej Povse
Group of Syrians on way to the Hungary border.
Syrian man holding daughter on the way to the Hungary border.
Serbian-Hungarian border. .A small group of Syrians, Palestinians and Iraqis are waiting for the night to fall, so that they can run for cover through the endless fields of corn, pumpkins and sunflowers. Their only equipment is Google GPS.
Al-ghanem(R) with group of Syrians hiding from police on way to the Hungary border.
Jungle, a makeshift camp at an abandoned brick factory in the outskirts of Subotica, Serbia. Migrants on Hungary's border fence.
Jungle, a makeshift camp at an abandoned brick factory in the outskirts of Subotica, Serbia. Migrants on Hungary's border fence.
Group of Syrians and Iraqis on way to the Hungary border.
Group of Syrians on the way to the Hungary border.
Group of Syrians and Iraqis using GPS to find way to the Hungary border.
Serbian-Hungarian border. .A small group of Syrians, Palestinians and Iraqis are waiting for the night to fall, so that they can run for cover through the endless fields of corn, pumpkins and sunflowers. Their only equipment is Google GPS navigation.
Jungle, a makeshift camp at an abandoned brick factory in the outskirts of Subotica, Serbia. Migrants on Hungary's border fence.
Syrian woman holding daughter on the way to the Hungary border.
Group of Syrians spotted by floodlights of Hungarian police.
Group of Syrians spotted by floodlights of Hungarian police. They were arrested and taken to the dentition centre.
Hungarian police captured group of Iraqis near town Morahalom.
Migrant from Syria on the way to Hungary. Migrants on Hungary's border fence.
Syrian woman holding daughter on the way to the Hungary border.