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Syrian Refugees

The Gangs of Calais

The Gangs of Calais

I wanted to understand the gangs that smuggle refugees into the U.K., so I infiltrated one. For months, I pretended to be an economic migrant from Pakistan stuck in France. I wanted to understand how gangs managed to move refugees and migrants across the sea from Calais to Dover.

“I Think About Home Every Day”: The Syrians Who Can Never Return

“I Think About Home Every Day”: The Syrians Who Can Never Return

In an increasingly inhospitable Lebanon, Syrian refugees are often told to “go back home.” Home, they say, is all they dream of in their harsh exile beset by winter and exploitation.