Passages

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5 September 2019

"Passages" was born a year and a half ago with the aim of telling the main routes followed by migrants along the borders of Europe. Stories of migrants, refugees, but also doctors, volunteers, operators. Some shots from the Balkans by photographer Matthias Canapini

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Bihać
Hassan, 38, was beaten by Croatian police guarding the border. During the frantic escape, he fell and broke his left arm in two spots (Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 2018).
Bilal
Bilal, 27, from Pakistan, makes lunch on the top of the building where he has found temporary refuge (Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 2018).
Blisht
A young family from Damascus in the shelter provided by Caritas in Bilisht, Albania (March 2019).
Croatian border
Mines at the Bosnian-Croatian border, crossed daily by migrants finding their way to Europe (Velika Kladuša, August 2018).
Youth Centre
Poor management of migration flows led the municipality of Bihać to amass – until last September – hundreds of refugees and migrants in the crumbling premises of a former youth centre (August 2018).
Daily life
Daily life in the refugee camp of Viachori, Greece (August 2018).
Greece
Night view of the Viachori refugee camp for transiting migrants – mostly Syrians, Kurds, and Afghans – coming on foot from Turkey (August 2018)
Skoder
A police agent about to transfer a group of Iraqi migrants to the Tirana centre fro migrants (Albania, February 2019)
Serbia
Children waiting for the documents attesting their refugee status play in the Bogovadja camp where Acli NGO Ipsia operates (Serbia, August 2018)
Subotica
A detail of "Orban's wall", a barrier of steel, electric wire, and barbed wire, military troops, cameras... The wall, built in July 2015 along the border between Serbia and Hungary, was built with the sole aim of pushing back migrants transiting in the Balkans. 3.5 metres high, it extends over 175 km (Subotica, August 2018)
Traces
One of the many traces of the passages along the paths around Niš (Serbia, August 2018)
Bulgaria
Centre "Voenna rampa camp" for Syrian refugees. Lunchtime (Bulgaria, August 2018)
Voenna
A man showing the scar from the explosion of a car bomb around Qamishli, Syria (Bulgaria, August 2014)