„I am not racist, but...“
first thoughts on the situation of Roma in Bulgaria&Europe >> Read more...

A hot day on The Dry Bridge
Tbilisi in those days, that is a hot pot, where every single step burns your energy. Sun is shining without mercy from 8 till 8 o´clock and driving a „marshrutka“, a small bus made mostly from old Ford Transits, is the same as go to the turkish bath (but cheaper). >> Read more...

Olga
In the time of crises foreigners stay in Pilsen. But there is less legal work available – people have to do the illicit one. Authorities stopped to give away work permits and are also trying hard to discontinue the residence permits. >> Read more...

"If I get my papers, I would be translator in Czech Republic"
Michel tries to stay away from Wenceslas square as much as he can. He knows, that there is work there, but prefer not to try. Michel avoids Wenceslas Square, "there is too much Policemen", he said. >> Read more...

A Diplomatic Conflict.
The recent economic crisis that is spreading all over the world from the US is specially affecting the construction industry in Spain, where construction has been a crucial pillar of Spanish economy during the last few years. Since last October, thousands of jobs have disappeared in Spain as a result of the construction crisis. These currently increasing thousands are becoming a problem, not only because they are unemployed, but because most of them are immigrants. >> Read more...

How being closed to be open?
Recently I passed through the article of Les Black “Beaches and graveyards: Europe's haunted borders“ on eurozine.com about the small border town between France and Spain in which his life ended philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin. The reason of suicide was the denying him possibility to cross that border and possibility to be saved from Holocaust. The author compares this story with present day situation in that town and with impossibility to cross that border for people from Africa for who attempt to escape ends also with death, but this time in the sea.
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Fear and Loathing on the German-Polish Border
It is hard to believe but this happened right in the middle of the “civilized world”, in the country that is among the first nowadays to advocate peace and human rights, the country promoting democracy and fair European Neighborhood Policy. The rude, almost inhuman behavior of the German border guards on the German-Polish border towards the Ukrainian legal (!!) migrants shocked many who heard about it. Unfortunately, most of the Germans would not now about this incident, and many of the Ukrainians in the immigration would simply fail to unite against the injustice towards their fellow country men. >> Read more...