Drowning in the Balkans: 'His body went away with the water'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Another paragraph provides for the same penalty for anyone who "organises illegal migration", a broad classification.
57% : She is waiting for him in Germany after receiving asylum in Greece.
53% : When people contacted the hotline, volunteers would ask their nationalities and if they wanted to seek asylum there, before passing on their location and information to the authorities, who were then meant to hear their asylum claims and register them as asylum seekers.
52% : In the early days of the hotline, refugees and migrants living in other Balkan states who wished to apply for asylum in Slovenia were given the number and instructed to send a message once they had reached the country; later, news of the hotline spread by word of mouth.
52% : He has someone close to him now to care for - a fiancée - an Afghan woman he met in Iran and lived with in Moria.
52% : In the Croatian capital, they plan to ask for asylum and rest in a family refugee camp before continuing on to Germany, where they all want to settle permanently.
51% : In the end, says Turk, the hotline was "giving false hope" to people who wished to apply for asylum in Slovenia.
49% : The family is from Mashhad, a large city in Iran close to the Afghan border.
45% : You may push yourself to swim further than you would have, if you fear capture from border patrol.
45% : Sometimes, after sending authorities the locations of those who wished to apply for asylum, Info Kolpa volunteers discovered that those same people ended up back in Bosnia - returned over two national borders in what is known as a "chain pushback".
39% : By this, he means that contact with undocumented refugees and migrants in Slovenia who have not yet asked for asylum "is on the line between smuggling and helping.
38% : Hamid and Nahida have been refugees all their lives - first as children in Iran, fleeing the war in Afghanistan, and now as adults in eastern Europe.
32% : Hamid says the Croatian police confiscated the boat and pump, a significant financial setback for the family who live off money sent by their relatives in Iran.

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