Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The children for whom illegally crossing borders is the only way of life they know: From Calais to the Mediterranean, families continue to risk the lives of their young for a new life in Europe

                         A migrant man carries his child as he walks on train tracks towards the town of Gevgelija, on the Macedonian-Greek border
Migrant families are risking the lives of their children in a desperate attempt to make it across the Mediterranean in search of a better life in Europe.
Leaving behind everything they have ever known, the youngsters accompany their parents as they flee the brutal conflict and instability in Syria, Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan.
It's a perilous journey few would make by choice but as these harrowing pictures show, families are risking it all in search of a place they can bring up their children without risk of persecution.

In Calais, those dreaming of a new start are met with towering fences, barbed wire and armed guards. But that doesn't appear to stop hundreds of men, women and children clambering over fences and boarding trains in an attempt to reach the UK.
The risings tensions saw violence erupt in the French port last night after a weekend where around 2,500 migrants stormed the Channel Tunnel, including an organised gang of 200 filmed chanting 'open the borders' and demanding to be allowed to walk to Britain.
A French riot officer is in hospital today after he was left with a lacerated face and head as police were pelted with stones as 1,000 people were stopped at the fences but a record 700 got through to the main train terminal, Eurotunnel said today.
                          Many of the migrants, among them children and elderly people, are trying to cross Macedonia and Serbia to enter the European Union via Hungary
                   In Calais, families with young children are moved away from the perimeter fence of the Eurotunnel site at Coquelles in Calais, as French police make their nightly sweeps of the area
                   Cold and tired: A family with young children wrapped up in blankets to keep warm are moved away from the perimeter fence of the Eurotunnel site as French police make their nightly sweeps of the area
                     A group of immigrants with a young child walk along the fence in Calais, France as they make their way to the channel tunnel
                  A mother carries a child down the roadside towards the Eurotunnel terminal where hundreds of migrants are continuing to attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel
                  A migrant mother holds her child as she sits on the grass near Calais as night falls while hundreds of immigrants who massed around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel said on Thursday they would keep trying to sneak across to Britain
                   Over the fence: A child, clutching a toy, is led across the rail tracks at Calais towards a train by an adult
                  Strike action and daily attempts by hundreds of migrants, with their children, to enter the Channel Tunnel and onto trains heading to the United Kingdom
                  A young child is helped to disembark from the Doctors Withour Borders' Bourbon Argos ship in the Sicilian harbour of Palermo, Italy today
                  A young child sits on her father's shoulders as migrants get on a train heading to Serbia at the railway station of Gevgelija
                  Exhausted: A young boy falls asleep in his mother's arms while a young girl follows behind as they try to board the train for Serbia
                        A mother tries to keep her sleeping baby cool as they wait for the train heading to the Serbian border. After they have reached the bloc, many start to make their way to wealthier countries in Western Europe
                  A boy risks his life as he walks on train tracks on the Macedonian-Greek border as the numbers of lone children seeking asylum soared
                  A father carried his tired young son as they join hundreds of other migrants who dream of a better life in Europe
                  Lifted: A young boy is supported by helped onto the train (centre) as scored of migrants attempt to board before Hungary's deadline for finishing their giant fence
                  A young girl waves as she leaves on the train, heading for Europe, as the train leaves the station
                  Migrant children look out through the window of the train heading to the Serbian. Once there, the youngsters and their families will most likely head for richer nations
                  A family fleeing Syria stop to for something to eat in Asotthalomafter crossing the border illegally from Serbia into Hungary
                  Children of Afghan migrants walk down a road after crossing the border illegally from Serbia, near Asotthalom, Hungary 
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