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Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / A Life Removed

Artyom reaches for something above the computer. "He is still young," says Marina of Artyom, "but I don't want him to grow up without friends."

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: A Life Removed

One-year-old Aboubacar is weighed at the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria. He weighs 4.74 kg.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / Aboubacar

A young displaced woman walks in a dust storm ripping through Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: Aboubacar

A young boy rests against the stick used to keep him from falling from the back of the pickup as it tears across the Sahara north of Agadez, Niger, Monday, April 20, 2015. Any passenger who falls unseen at night will almost certainly die, not due to

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / Rivers of the Sahara

Migrants headed to Libya are stuffed into the back of a pickup truck as they begin the first day of their five day journey across the Sahara to Libya.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: Rivers of the Sahara

Young migrants making their way north to Libya wait in a compound in Agadez, Niger.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / Mahamadou

A young Eritrean man messages family left behind in Asmara as he and his friend lie in bed in their room in Juba. "Our loss is family," says one migrant worker who requested not to be named for fear his family back in Eritrea would be persecuted by

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / Gambling On The Margins

Levi, a Ugandan, first came to Juba to manage a housing compound that was being built. He soon followed his friends though and took of boda driving full time.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: Gambling on the Margins

Two senior-level managers speak as a coworker pours them more wine.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / Building Life in South Sudan

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / In Search of Safety: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan

Women and children pick through the surrounding forest for a small, bitter fruit. Few on the bus have any food or water and daytime temperatures hover between 90 and 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: In Search of Safety: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan

An Afghan family collects themselves after arriving on Lesbos, Greece, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin for The Wall Street Journal. HAWALA

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / The Tides of Italy

An Italian health worker yells directions as a boat of rescued migrants arrives in Augusta, Sicily.

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: Arrival

Syrian refugees point to different countries on a map posted in Milano's central train station. Countries such as Sweden, Germany, and Denmark are primary destinations for Syrian refugees headed north as they see better chances there of being grante

Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: Northward