The Guardian | 04.11.2017
Thousands of refugees are living in squalid conditions on Samos, and a diagnosis of illness could be a ticket to getting out
Giorgos Christides and Olga Stefatou in Samos, Greece
Eida was two months pregnant when she suffered a miscarriage.
A month later, the 18-year-old Syrian refugee still feels angry and despondent. Not just that she lost a child. But that being pregnant was her ticket off the Greek island of Samos – and out of a squalid, barren, barb-wired camp.
The young woman is one of around 3,000 refugees in Samos, one of the five Greek “hotspot” islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, designated by the EU to act as a barricade against massive irregular migrant arrivals from Turkey.
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