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Human Rights Watch Report: Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey – Entrance to the EU

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Stuck in a Revolving Door, Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey – Entrance to the European Union, November 2008.

  • “Iraqis are currently the largest nationality group of asylum seekers lodging new claims in the European Union (EU), and Greece has become their favored entry point. But Greece does not want this role, nor do Iraqis appear to want to stay in Greece, but would prefer to seek asylum in countries to the west and north. However, Iraqi asylum seekers find themselves stuck in Greece. First, they can’t move onward because EU asylum law, via the Dublin II regulation, normally requires asylum seekers to lodge their claims for protection in the first EU country in which they set foot and they also can’t move back home because of fear of war and persecution. They are almost never provided asylum in Greece.”
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