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Orestiada - Greece Shearyar, 21 years old, wants to join his brother in the Netherlands. From Northern Greece, he tries to get to Athens.

Orestiada - Greece After the rain, an African migrant quenches his thirst.

Patras – Greece An Afghan migrant nicknamed « Rambo » tries to get into the port’s international zone to take a ferry to Italy.

Patras - Greece A migrant sleeps at the foot of a freight car, right across the port.

Patras - Greece The illegal migrants try to enter Italy, hidden in containers or under the trucks’ trailers. They hope to embark for Bari, Ancona or Venice, either to stay there, either to be able to « freely » enter the neighbouring European countries.

Patras - Greece A break between two ferries.

Patras – Greece Patras, an important port of Western Greece where 500 to 900 trucks pass through each day on their way to Italy, has become a center of illegal immigration. The migrants relentlessly try their luck.

Patras - Greece At night, after having had their dinner by flashlight, migrants go to sleep right across the port, on the ground.

Paris - France Hemed 26 years old, a Tunisian migrant, camps in the Buttes-Chaumon park since 5 months: “I wanted to come to France since a long time. Here you are free and you can succeed in life.”

Paris - France In a public garden in the 19th arrondissement, bordering the ring road, live Tunisian immigrants. All reached France via the island of Lampedusa, with the hope of finding a better life.
Orestiada - Greece Shearyar, 21 years old, wants to join his brother in the Netherlands. From Northern Greece, he tries to get to Athens.
Birds in flight
Dragan LEKIC / collectif Libre arbitre
To go away. To leave everything behind. To emigrate to another land. The dream land. The welcoming land whose wealth holds out its hand. Those who exile themselves from their native soil, which has become too inhospitable, too dangerous, have a perpetual story to tell: that of migrant travelers, eternal foreigners, risking their lives in an uncertain quest with, as their only baggage, the hope for another life in an idealized elsewhere.
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