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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

The lights of trucks carrying migrants to Libya dot the desert horizon a few hours north of Agadez, Niger, Monday, April 20, 2015.

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

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

Passengers look out the windows as the bus departs Malakal.

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

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 the government, "I don't know when I will see them again - Maybe never. Life is small when you have no family so I hope we have not said goodbye."

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

Water deliverymen working before dawn pump water from the Nile into the tanks of their waiting trucks. Without any city water supply network, all residences in Juba have their water delivered by such trucks.

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

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 granted asylum quickly with relatively better financial support and social services as they try and start their new lives.

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