audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Nearly 75,000 refugees and migrants, including an estimated 24,600 children, currently stranded in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Western Balkans are at risk of psychosocial distress caused by living in a protracted state of limbo, according to a recent report by UNICEF. Macedonia was one of the countries that was majorly affected by the refugee movements towards Western Europe in the second half of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. However, it was not a destination itself, but rather a transit country. On the 8th of March 2016 the ''Western Balkan route'' was officially closed to the refugees. One of the problems which arose out of this situation was that the refugees were at greater risk of becoming victims of human trafficking, as the majority of them started turning to smugglers in order to reach their final destination. In the Republic of Macedonia, there are two Temporary Transit Centers still open. Vinojug and Tabanovce. The refugee transit centre Vinojug near Gevgelija, just north of the border with Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, looks like a make-shift village. It was opened in the summer of 2015 and has 133 residents now, mostly women and children, stuck between the future they set out to reach and the past they were trying to escape. The residents of Vinojug have little choice but to settle into a routine in their temporary barracks. There's a set time for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The children go to a temporary school and mothers try to adapt to their new routine, far from everything they know.
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February 16, 2017 - Tabanovce, Macedonia - Security fences beside Tabanovce Transit Center stand on the way to Serbia. Several dozen people are staying at the camp after nearly one hundred refugees of Syrian origin were deported back to Greece last week after having spent about a year in the camp. Right now refugees coming from Pakistan, Afganistan and Magreb (Morocco and Argelia) are staying in the camp without knowing their future.
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February 16, 2017 - Tabanovce, Macedonia - Containers used for housing refugees are seen at Tabanovce Transit Center in north Macedonia border with Serbia.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - DOMO (R) and SABAH (L), who arrived one year ago from Mosul, Iraq, play ping-pong at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece. As borders remain closed along the refugee route nearly one hundred migrants of Iraqi, Iranian and Syrian nationalities stay, at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija.
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February 16, 2017 - Tabanovce, Macedonia - Furniture stacked inside a tent at Tabanovce Transit Center in north Macedonia border with Serbia.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - FALAH from Iraq arrived one year ago at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija in south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - Clothes dry at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija in south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - A teacher, right, of the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija in south Macedonia close to the border with Greece helps a refugee girl to ride a bike.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - The Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece as seen through a fence.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - A refugee child is seen through the window of a container house in the arms of a caregiver at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - Container houses at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - ADEL from Iraq, who arrived 10 months ago, walks one of his three children outside the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - Clothes and garbage sit in a container outside The Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - A farmer drives a tractor next to the border fence of Macedonia with Greece in Gevgelija.
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February 13, 2017 - Gevgelija, Macedonia - A refugee child watches a cartoon movie inside a container house at the Temporary Transit Center of Gevgelija at south Macedonia close to the border with Greece.
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February 16, 2017 - Tabanovce, Macedonia - Clothes hang from a security fence at Tabanovce Transit Center in north Macedonia border with Serbia.
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