Suspended

Two years ago, hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and migrants went through so-called. Balkan Route to Western Europe. In the sun, on foot, in crowded means of transport, stubbornly tried to reach the destination.

The media are flooded with shots of the crowds of asylum seekers trying to get to places they imagined would become new homes for them. Their portraits, stories and traces left on the route were everywhere. However, when the number of migrants on the Balkan roads began to decline and the Balkan Route got closed, interest in their fate also decreased.

But these people did not disappear.

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Many of those who reached the shores of Europe, reached the western part of the European continent, too. Thousands of those who left the Lebanon or Turkey coasts, never again saw the land again — they died in the sea. But what happened to those who, despite the successful sea crossing, have never reached their desired destination?

Today the Balkan Route is a Camp Route. There are those whose journey ended unexpectedly — in tents or containers, behind barbed wires, in persistent waiting.

They are caught between dreams and regulations and laws that stop their plans from becaming true. They do not know if they will be able to go any further, stay where they are, or be sent back?

They are suspended.

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