Ethiopian women in front of a Western Union office in the Dora neighbourhood.

A man drinks coffee at a busy road junction in the Dora neighbourhood.

A group of African migrants in the Dora neighbourhood.

South Asian migrants standing outside a parade of shops in the Dora neighbourhood.

Ethiopian women in front of a shop selling hair care products in the Dora neighbourhood.treadi

A group of African migrants in the Dora neighbourhood.

Two Ethiopian women pass by as two men shake hands in greeting in a cafe in the Dora neighbourhood.

A statue of the Virgin Mary in the Dora neighbourhood.

A large portrait of Yasser Arafat displayed across a street in the Al Buss Palestinian refugee camp. It was established in 1939 during the French mandate to shelter refugees from Armenia. In 1948 and...

A canary sits in a cage, in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in west Beirut, hanging beneath faded posters featuring Yasser Arafat.

Children sit in a decrepit playground near the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in west Beirut.

A man selling fruit in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in west Beirut.

Syrian refugees gather near a building marked with shrapnel damage from the civil war.

Syrian refugees near Pigeon Rock, natural rock stacks in the sea off the Corniche.

A large portrait of Yasser Arafat displayed across a street in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp.

A flag featuring a portrait of Yasser Arafat flies over a former children's playground, surrounded by war-damaged buildings and construction sites near the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in West Bei...

A giant portrait of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in West Beirut.

Street vendors selling secondhand clothes in the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp in West Beirut.

A cap and glove caught in the barbed wire surrounding a detention centre for illegal migrants.

The former dormitory area of an abandoned detention centre for illegal migrants.

A group of Sudanese asylum seekers, dressed in black to camouflage themselves once its dark, heading to the port where they hope to stowaway under a truck in order to get on a ship to Italy.

A group of Afghan migrants eat beside the railway tracks that lead to the port where they hope to stowaway on a boat to Italy.

An Algerian transit migrant prays outside a decrepit abandoned factory building near the port of Patras from where he and his friends hope to get onboard a ship and travel to Italy.

Mobile phones belonging to a group of Algerian transit migrants who are camped in a decrepit abandoned factory building, are being charged from an illegal link to a high voltage cable. The migrants ar...

An Algerian transit migrant sleeps in a decrepit abandoned factory building near the port of Patras from where he and his friends hope to get onboard a ship and travel to Italy.

A group of Algerian transit migrants who are camped in a decrepit abandoned factory building near the port of Patras from where they hope to get onboard a ship and travel to Italy.

A group of Algerian transit migrants who are camped in a decrepit abandoned factory building near the port of Patras from where they hope to get onboard a ship and travel to Italy.

South Asian migrants sit outside a graffiti coved building.

Afghan migrants sit beneath the Rio - Antirrio bridge. They hope to get on board a ship to Italy one day, and begin a new life in England. Meanwhile they live in abandoned houses near the bridge.

Migrants wait to apply for political asylum outside Petrou Ralli police station. Every night hundreds of undocumented migrants go to the station to reserve a place in the long queue. They are trying t...

Iraqi Kurds selling contreband cigarettes on a street where most of the shops are closed and shuttered.

African migrants selling countefeit luxury brand bags and African handicrafts to tourists on the beach.

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Police carry out a so-called 'Xenios Zeus operation', the code name for large scale sweep operations against illegal migrants, near Omonia Square. Police officers go out on the streets and check the d...

Nigerian migrants Winzo Asulu (34) and Sisi Collins Bacongu walk through the narrow alleys of the city's medina. The pair are recently arrived in Tangier where they are trying to earn some money in or...

Nigerian migrants Sisi Collins Bacongu (right) and Winzo Asulu check their Facebook accounts in an internet cafe. The pair are recently arrived in Tangier where they are trying to earn some money in o...

Nigerian migrants Sisi Collins Bacongu (left) and Winzo Asulu look out to across the sea that they wish to cross to get to Europe. The pair are recently arrived in Tangier where they are trying to ear...

Nigerian migrants Sisi Collins Bacongu (left) and Winzo Asulu play and joke together while in their room in a cheap transit hotel in the medina. The pair are recently arrived in Tangier where they are...

Mjiaye (in blue) and Medoune, Senegalese migrants, relax on the city's beach. While making his way from Senegal to Europe, Mjiaye recently arrived in Tangier where he is trying to earn some money in o...

Mjiaye, a Senegalese migrant, braces against the wind blowing sand as he walks on the city's beach. While making his way from Senegal to Europe, Mjiaye recently arrived in Tangier where he is trying t...

Mjiaye, a Senegalese migrant (in blue), sits at the entrance to the medina, where fellow African transit migrants sell bracelets. While making his way from Senegal to Europe, Mjiaye recently arrived i...

Mjiaye, a Senegalese migrant, sits at a table in Chez Kebe, a popular Senegalese restaurant. While making his way from Senegal to Europe, Mjiaye recently arrived in Tangier where he is trying to earn...

Senegalese migrants selling watches from a pitch on the sea front.

African migrants hang out beside the Neptune, replica of a 17th century Spanish galleon built in 1985 for Roman Polanski's film Pirates, and now a tourist attraction.

Two Bangladeshi migrants sell toys, balls and kites in the Foro Italico recreation area on the Mediterranean seafront.

David, a homeless man originating from South Africa, stops to force the cap off a bottle of beer as he walks his 11 dogs through the streets of the city.

Two Bangladeshi street performers put on a fake levitation act near the Colosseum.

Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa meeting in the harbour in front of the Marsa Open Centre for migrants.

An immigrant from Senegal, selling fake designer handbags to tourists on Marbella beach.

An arm chair, buggy and satellite dish in front of a 'container house' in the 'Tent Village Open Centre'. A container house accomodates up to two families or eight individuals. Most residents are Afri...

A migrant sits in front of a 'container house' in the 'Tent Village Open Centre'. A container house accomodates up to two families or eight individuals. Most residents are Africans, predominantly from...

A Somalian migrant girl in front of her 'container house' in the 'Tent Village Open Centre'. A container house accomodates up to two families or eight individuals. Most residents are Africans, predomi...

Two women lift a buggy up a flight of steps leading to their 'container house' in the 'Tent Village Open Centre'. A container house accomodates up to two families or eight individuals. Most residents...

Two migrants sitting in front of their 'container house' in the 'Tent Village Open Centre'. A container house accomodates up to two families or eight individuals. Most residents are Africans, predomin...

Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural Anatolia. It is rapidly being surrounded by prestigious highrise buildings in Atasehir, an 'Urban Transformation Zone' on th...

A girl stands beside a telegraph pole and a woman selling unspun wool in Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural Anatolia. It is rapidly being surrounded by prestig...

Small ships in the Lampedusa 'ship cemetery' where decrepit vessels previously used by people traffickers to smuggle illegal migrants across the Mediterranean Sea are abandoned. Most of the vessels we...

Local youths socialise and have fun in a small square in a residential area of Lampedusa town.

Newly arrived migrants walk towards a statue of the virgin Mary, overlooking the harbour of Lampedusa.

Newly arrived Nigerian migrants shake hands and wish each other good luck, as they talk on a balcony overlooking the coast guard's fleet of boats moored in the harbour of Lampedusa. The jetty in the b...

Newly arrived migrants walk past graffiti that reads: 'I love Lampedusa'.

Newly arrived migrants from Eritrea trying to make a phone call from a public booth on Via Roma.

Newly arrived migrants from Eritrea trying to make a phone call from a public booth on Via Roma.

A local resident watches a group of newly arrived migrants from Eritrea in front of the Church of Saint Gerland.

Newly arrived migrants from Somalia enjoy the sea near Guitgia Beach, just a few days after a boat disaster on 3 October 2013 when a boat carrying over 500 migrants, mostly from Eritrea, sank off the...

Newly arrived migrants from Somalia enjoy the sea near Guitgia Beach, just a few days after a boat disaster on 3 October 2013 when a boat carrying over 500 migrants, mostly from Eritrea, sank off the...

A group of African migrants heading towards the migrant's reception centre, via a rocky short cut road.

Small ships in the Lampedusa 'ship cemetery' where decrepit vessels previously used by people traffickers to smuggle illegal migrants across the Mediterranean Sea are abandoned. Most of the vessels we...

A local fisherman searches among the small ships in the Lampedusa 'ship cemetery' for any reusable items. The site is where decrepit vessels previously used by people traffickers to smuggle illegal mi...

Small ships in the Lampedusa 'ship cemetery' where decrepit vessels previously used by people traffickers to smuggle illegal migrants across the Mediterranean Sea are abandoned. Most of the vessels we...

Small ships in the Lampedusa 'ship cemetery' where decrepit vessels previously used by people traffickers to smuggle illegal migrants across the Mediterranean Sea are abandoned. Most of the vessels we...

Two Moroccan women stop to talk on Main Street.

An African migrant sleeps beneath the awning of his street stall.

Two Moroccan women rest on a bench on Main Street.

A poster of Marilyn Monroe from the film 'The Seven Year Itch' on a wall in the Moroccan-run cafe the Roxy.

A woman hangs out washing from a balcony in the former Hotel Abchazia where, since 1991, about 680 Georgian refugees, from the breakaway republics of South-Ossetia and Abkhazia, have been living.

An internal displaced person (IDP) from South-Ossetia enters the former Hotel Abchazia where, since 1991, about 680 Georgian refugees, from the breakaway republics of South-Ossetia and Abkhazia, have...

Washing hangs from balconies in the former Hotel Abchazia where, since 1991, about 680 Georgian refugees, from the breakaway republics of South-Ossetia and Abkhazia, have been living.

Shushanik Maveliyan and David Avetisyan, the children of Armenian refugees who fled Azerbaijan with the outbreak of anti-Armenian violence in 1988 and now live, along with other many other refugees, i...

A woman hangs out washing near the former Hotel Goris, home, since 1988, for hundreds of Armenian refugees who fled Azerbaijan with the outbreak of anti-Armenian violence.

The ship cemetery of Lampedusa, where decrepit vessels used by illegal immigrants to cross the Mediterranean Sea are piled up. Most are fishing boats from Tunisia and Libya.

Newly arrived migrants from Syria and Somalia enjoy the sea near Guitgia Beach, just a few days after a boat disaster of 3 October 2013 when a boat carrying over 500 migrants, mostly from Eritrea, san...

Sub-Saharan African in the CETI Temporary Centre for Immigrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Grafitti in the abandoned detention centre for illegal immigrants in Dikea. The drawings and texts that they left on the walls bear testimony to their frustrations, their homesickness, their anger, th...

Immigrants waiting to apply for political asylum at Petrou Ralli police station. There is a backlog of people waiting to get access to the relevant department and their are complaints that only 20 peo...