Migrants line up to go home

More than 2,000 immigrants are due to return to their homelands in the coming months as part of a new voluntary repatriation scheme being run by the Athens office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Kathimerini understands that many of these migrants had traveled to Greece with high hopes of finding work or relocating to a more prosperous European Union country, but in the past two years ended up sleeping on the streets, eating out of garbage bins and falling victim to racist attacks. Last year, more than 1,200 migrants were sent home in the first wave of the IOM’s repatriation scheme.
(24.01.2012) Kathimerini English Edition
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