National Geographic 08.2019

LEAVING AFRICA, FOR THE GAMBLE OF A LIFETIME LEAVING AFRICA, FOR THE ...

Trained as an engineer, this 38-year-old Nigerian imagined Spain would prove the gateway to a better life in Europe. That was 14 ...

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A decade into their new lives in Spain, Senegalese friends Fatou Ndoye, left, and Hawka Diallo prepare for a Sene- galese holida ...

it a point to sit with newcomers in the shelter’s common rooms, just keeping them company. The guy today was a Malian named Lass ...

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At an entrance to Madrid’s historic Plaza Mayor, Senegalese migrants take a break from their labors for an autumn celebration of ...

that in recent decades has been transformed, through intensive irrigation and greenhouse farming, into an abundant multiseason a ...

MOROCCO 706,520 ALGERIA 56,569 SENEGAL 49,930 NIGERIA 30,484 GHANA 12,157 MAURITANIA 8,612 MALI 17,742 CÔTE D’IVOIRE EQUATORIAL ...

free Wi-Fi, he can download Malian music and talk with his family by video. In Bamako he was able to touch his wife and children ...

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BY nina strochlic PHOTOGRAPHS BY alexia webster IN TIJUANA, NEAR THE WORLD’S BUSIEST LAND BORDER CROSSING, A PHOTOGRAPHER MAKES ...

PORTRAITS FROM A BUSTLING BORDER PORTRAITS FROMABUSTLING ...

THE SET IS SIMPLE: a little fabric, a chair, maybe some flowers. Its inhabitants are more complex: an American mother who takes ...

In 2018 caravans of migrants from Central America began walking toward the U.S. border. Besy Samileth, a 17-year-old from Hondur ...

After this photo was taken, Salvadoran migrants Blanca Flores and her husband, José Israel Mejía (right), were granted asylum in ...

Juana Sorto also came to Tijuana to apply for asylum at the border. She left behind nine children in Honduras with the hope of g ...

Migrants and Tijuana residents come from a variety of backgrounds. Clockwise from top left: Samanta and José Vieyra; Michelet Du ...

Webster hopes her street studio series allows migrants like Guillermo Antonio Escobar, a construction worker from El Salvador, t ...

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