The continent’s new border rules have left them trapped on their way to northern Europe, and when their money runs out there’s almost no legal way to earn more.
Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers live in Athens, hardly any of whom actually want to stay there. You can sell drugs, sell sex or work for smugglers to find customers. “At the airport, there is no healthy work.
“I didn’t have any money,” Abdullah said. “I had just arrived, and I had to do this just to get some money.”īut he stayed in the park for several hours, and after being approached by various men, he had sex with one of them in a wooded area off the main pavilion, for 20 euros (a little over $20). In his birth country Iran, he had slept with both girls and boys, he said, but never with “old men.”
