International No Border Camp Aug.11-20 (near Uzhgorod)
The camp will take place from the 11th to the 20th of August 2007 in the main region of transit and labor migration in Ukraine: Transcarpathia.
The eastward expansion of the European Union has resulted in moving the walls of “Fortress Europe” to the Western border of Ukraine. The Ukrainian region of Transcarpatia, of which the biggest cities are Uzhgorod and Mukachevo, has become a new borderline, with increasing militarization and major concentration of detention camps for refugees from the countries of Global South and former USSR, who try to escape war, totalitarianism or misery to the European Union countries. It is hard to find any “open” information about the conditions in the majority of these camps.
The condition of the refugees in…