nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220502-182208-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220502s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220502-182208-0 doi eng 342 23 Ancite-Jepifánova, Aleksandra Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9501-2845 Trapped in a Lawless Zone - Forgotten Refugees at the Latvia-Belarus Border Ancite-Jepifánova, Aleksandra Verfassungsblog 2022-05-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The treatment of asylum-seekers – predominantly from the Middle East – crossing the Latvian border from Belarus is in sharp contrast with the recent decision of the Latvian government to support at least 23,000 people who have arrived in the country from war-torn Ukraine. Those who have paid the highest price for this policy are people who have been forced to remain in the forest for months under inhuman conditions just to be ultimately returned to their country of origin, an experience that has left most of them severely traumatised. CC BY-SA 4.0 pushbacks Refugee Protection Right to Asylum Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/trapped-in-a-lawless-zone/ raw object