ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月27日 03時31分

photo by @lynseyaddario | words by @neilshea13 — A refugee stands before a map of Europe, quietly reading distances, considering the landscape ahead. Her old country, Eritrea, does not appear on the map, and for now her next home is uncertain. The middle passage across the Mediterranean ends in such places, hollow and still or cluttered and smelling of disinfectant. They are called welcome centers, and there are many in Sicily. Here migrants spend a few days, or months, sometimes years, waiting. Here you find their graffiti, pencil-scrawled notes, names and mobile numbers. Phrases, written in English and Italian, that read THANK YOU ITALY or I LOVE EUROPA. And in all of these places you will also find somewhere a map, like this one, with its strange childish colors. Yellow for Spain, purple for France, Britain in sickly pink. On this map Russia is an inviting green, though few people want to live there. Italy, too, is green, and while swarms of travelers land here and in Greece—more than a million last year and some 182,000 so far in 2016—most hope to travel on, northward. But the old maps don’t tell of Europe’s confusion, or its moods. The tighter borders, smaller budgets, deeper weariness. Let us then print new ones depicting countries according to hospitality or hostility, openness or fear. Many years ago my great-grandfather, himself a migrant, looked at a map and chose Boston. Back then the Irish had nearly become white people, though to many Americans they remained suspect—Papists, thieves, the blacks of Europe. Italians, too, were not yet white or fully welcome. Both peoples still on probation, color as fickle as a border. I ask the woman, Where will you go? She touches the cross at her neck and says Anywhere.
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This is the final part of an Instagram series on African migration toward Europe. Thank you for joining us! For more stories from the Mediterranean and beyond, follow us @neilshea13 and @lynseyaddario
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