Twelve refugees in the UK and in Turkey were interviewed during the course of the research in order to gather information about their routes, their methods, their motivations and their experience of border controls.
Finding respondents was not easy and many refugees were too scared to talk openly about their journey to the UK or Turkey and the illegal activities they had engaged in, in order to reach safety. The research sought to give a voice to the individuals who suffer and die while trying to reach Europe. Unfortunately these migrants are, by definition, invisible; they exist below the radar of media coverage, public attention and legal protection.
The following case studies record the experiences of three refugees who succeeded in reaching a place of safety but whose journeys were unnecessarily fraught with danger and hardship.
