When I arrived back in the Greek airport, the first words I heard were, “You malaka, where are you coming from?” My mind immediately changed from Finland to Greece. I spent eight days in the airport jail. I’m too angry to describe it. It was one small cell with 10 guys in it. You had to wait three hours before they would let you go to the toilet. I was very angry… They gave me a deportation paper to leave Greece in one month. By now, I have a whole file of these deportation papers. I have been in jail four times since being returned from Finland. Each time I get another deportation paper. Now whenever I see the police, I change direction. I am now illegal again. I never got a red card. I live in this country with no papers, no job. How can I eat here? I don’t know the language, I don’t have any friends. What if I get sick? Nobody knows me. I don’t know what to do.320 Despite the Dublin II rule that the country agreeing to the transfer agrees to examine the asylum claim, in fact, if Greece allowed this man to file a new asylum application upon his return from Finland at all, it appears as though it was a perfunctory denial while in detention at the airport that certainly did not give him anything approaching a meaningful examination of his asylum claim or appeal of a negative decision. Lack of Reception, Housing, Social Services for Dublin Returnees Some returnees have a less traumatic initial re-entry, but find that their condition deteriorates after living a few months in Greece. The contrast between housing and other social services that are provided to asylum seekers in other EU countries and the lack of support upon return to Greece is one of the most disorienting and alienating experiences for returnees under the Dublin system. The lack of social support also has a striking impact on the ability of vulnerable asylum seekers to pursue their claims for protection in Greece. 320 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-23), Athens, May 28, 2008. Stuck in a Revolving Door 118