In the aftermath of the Arab Spring and several other presumed ‘revolutions’ that initially gave hope to some of the most repressed societies in this world, an increasing number of people considered their futures impossible in the regimes that ruled them and decided to leave the community, the land, its plants and animals, tastes, and smells that had been part of their lives for long. Looking beyond these recent crises, their departure is of course deeply rooted in long and tragic histories in which the colonial past, and more recently, the (subsequent) ecological crises, had a major effect on their land and how it could be lived. The (civil) wars in which quite a few of these revolutions ended (for instance in Syria), or the chaos and disorder that became the new normal in the past years, should be seen as the last straw that broke the camel’s back, as only the direct cause of why people felt obliged to flee. Nevertheless, they fled. They started their journey to safer places, in search of a new home, a new community to be part of, a new table to join. Most of these travellers moved to family and friends in the area, and quite a few of them searched for ways of setting up a new life in neighbouring countries. For some, the long and hazardous journey to specific ‘safe’ locations within Europe seemed appealing.