Between April 10 and April 30, RAS Field Team focused on monitoring the overall situation in the Belgrade area. In total, RAS Field Team provided 963 migrants/refugees with information and conducted 242 interviews with both newly arrived and migrants residing in Serbia for more than a month during this reporting period. In these 20 days of April, RAS Field Team took notice of 240 new arrivals – 40% (98) of them coming from Pakistan, 23% (56) from Afghanistan, 21% (50) from Iran, and 8% (19) from Iraq. Other countries of origin include Algeria (3), Sri Lanka (4), Syria (5), Libya (9), Somalia (4), and Ghana (7).
During the reporting period, 236 migrants/ refugees were asked about their preferred country of destination. Although the answers vary greatly, there is an evident trend to move to Western European countries, namely France 44 (19%), Germany 40 (17%), and Italy 37 (16%). Serbia was also a choice of a significant number of migrants/refugees, 21 (9%). These four main destinations are followed by Spain, (4%), Norway (3%) and the United Kingdom (2%).
