Ivo Evers
Ivo Evers (b. 1983) is a Dutch freelance journalist. He worked as the Suriname correspondent for the daily Trouw, before joining the Dutch television show Een Vandaag in August 2011. He is also the author of the blog, Are you hung up?
As the sole EU land border on the American continent, the French overseas department is the destination for a large number of immigrants from neighbouring Suriname. Every year, 13,000 of them apply for residency permits that are valid throughout the entirety of the Schengen Area.