Zainab Ali, 8, a refugee from Afghanistan, sits in a classroom in the elementary school Jovan Cvijic in Belgrade.
Young refugee Shvaib Nazari flicks between his native Dari and wobbly Serbian language notes during his first week back at school in Belgrade, where his family lives in a state of limbo.
The 12-year-old is one of 700 migrant children enrolled for a new school term in Serbia, far from the image of Europe that his Afghan family dreamt of when they left home nearly two years ago.
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