The Balkan route is still a hotbed for many refugees waiting to receive their asylum statuses for months, most of whom are women and children. The second part of the documentary Violent Borders shows the reality for underage refugees in Serbia. According to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), while the number of unaccompanied child refugees in the Balkan region is steadily on the rise, they often become victims of various dangers such as human trafficking.
Violent Borders is published in partnership with Cafébabel and Melting Pot Europa in two parts. Follow the project on Facebook or Wordpress.
Political analyst and freelance journalist living in Belgrade; deputy director of eastjournal.net; writing also for Balkan Insight, EastWest and ISPI.
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Valentina Marconi (1987) è una giornalista freelance che vive tra Ginevra e Amman. Laureata in Arab World Studies a Durham, ha studiato e lavorato in diversi paesi tra cui Inghilterra, Egitto, Italia e Spagna. Parla fluentemente inglese, spagnolo e arabo. Ha pubblicato articoli su il Giornale dell’Umbria, The Post Internazionale, Osservatorio Iraq, Papers of Dialogue, Catalan News Agency, The English site of the Agència Catalana de Notícies (ACN) and Melting Pot Europa. E' coautrice di Violent Borders (documentario, 31', 2018) e “Barcelona: Ready to Welcome?” (documentario, 43’, 2017). Contatto: valentina.marconi29@gmail.com
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