ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月26日 00時25分

photo by @lynseyaddario | words by @neilshea13 — The shipping container rings with women’s voices and the loud laughter of children. Here, below the Godetia’s main deck, female refugees and their families are given space away from the crowds of men and out of the day’s flat heat. Belgian navy medics have blown their latex exam gloves into balloons, and these squeal and pop as grinning kids drag them along the container’s rough walls. Above the noise, women discuss who they will call when they reach Italy, and where they will travel first. Stockholm, Oslo, London. Imaginary cities, invisible cities. Many of the women are Eritrean, which means their odds of reaching Scandinavia and Britain are vastly improved by the legal definitions pressed onto this flow of human beings. Eritreans are among the few Africans considered “refugees”—people fleeing violent oppression or conflict—and they easily win asylum. For others, however, for most of the 400 Nigerians, Gambians, Senegalese and Ghanaians rescued aboard the Godetia, the term “migrant” is applied. Migrants travel north seeking work or better lives but because they come for economic reasons, no country is legally bound to welcome them. Still, such structures dissolve quickly onshore. Most of the travelers will be allowed to stay in Europe. Only a handful will ever be returned to Africa. In the container, the women are not concerned with such definitions. Several of them have shepherded their children across the desert alone, their men waiting ahead, or left behind. With the hard confidence of mothers they talk of schools and work, of relatives who wait for them with new tongues. Nearby, in a corner, sits a pile of heavy hooded jackets and coarse wool gloves. A women named Sanet asks if it will be enough in a place called Trondheim. Her children, she says, don't understand about snow.
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This is the fifth in a six-part series on migration. Last June @neilshea13 and @lynseyaddario sailed with the Belgian navy as it patrolled the Mediterranean, rescuing travelers headed north toward Europe.
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