No school, only border crossing ‘Game’ for migrant kids on Bosnian border

(Reuters) Zeinaf Jabar, 11, learned some English while spending a year at a migrant camp in Greece and is now trying with her family, repeatedly, to cross into Croatia in what they call the “Game,” in search of a better life in western Europe.

“I stay here, don’t go school,” Zeinaf, a serene Iraqi girl with black plaited hair, told Reuters. “I miss too much school. We just go Game and come back, go Game and come back.”

With her parents and two siblings, she has just been pushed back into Bosnia after yet another unsuccessful attempt, amid bleak, wintry conditions, to get into EU member Croatia on their way to wealthier western Europe.

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