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Photography by Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin

  • Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation
    • A Life Removed
    • // Gallery: A Life Removed
    • Aboubacar
    • // Gallery: Aboubacar
    • Rivers of the Sahara
    • // Gallery: Rivers of the Sahara
    • In Search of Safety: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan
    • // Gallery: In Search of Safety: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan
    • Mahamadou
    • Gambling On The Margins
    • // Gallery: Gambling on the Margins
    • Building Life in South Sudan
    • The Tides of Italy
    • // Gallery: Arrival
    • // Gallery: Northward
  • Reportage
    • Tramadol
    • Niamey Grand Prix
    • Aleppo International: Life | Behind The Wall
    • Learning to Fight in South Sudan
    • De.Limiting Lines: Abyei's Push for Definition
  • Pivot Nation
    • Pivot Nation
    • Inflection Points
    • Erbil
    • Sulaymaniyah
    • Diyarbakir
  • | We Are |
  • | Solito |
  • | Humanitarian |
  • Personal
    • Portraits from South Sudan
    • In Passing
    • In Rooms of Lives Lost
    • Alem
  • Tearsheets
    • Assorted
    • The Wall Street Journal: Thousands Flock to Remote, Lawless Sahara in Search of Gold
    • The Wall Street Journal: "A Nest of Spies": Niger's Deserts Become Front Line
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: It Takes a Village to Kill a Child
    • The Wall Street Journal: Tramadol: The Opioid Crisis for the Rest of the World
    • The New Yorker
    • The Wall Street Journal: The 10,000 Kidnapped Boys of Boko Haram
    • The Wall Street Journal: 'African Dream' of Europe Turns Into a Nightmare
    • The Washington Post: 70 Miles and a World Away
    • Politico Magazine
    • The Wall Street Journal: Inside Europe's Migrant-Smuggling Rings
    • The Wall Street Journal: African Migrants Can't Reach Continent, But Can't Go Home
    • Time Magazine Lightbox
    • New York Times: In South Sudan, Government Troops Implicated in Violence
    • New York Times: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan
    • The Wall Street Journal: Ebola's Long Shadow
    • New York Times: South Sudan's Kickboxing Team
    • The Wall Street Journal:: Allure of Wealth Drives Deadly Trek
    • The Wall Street Journal: Iraqi Christians Take Up Arms
    • The Wall Street Journal: Migrant Boom is Saharan Boon
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Catch Me If You Can
    • Al Jazeera English: Iraqis Flee to Kurdistan Region
    • Al Jazeera English: Iraq's Displaced Seek Safe Haven
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: The Migrants Who Make It
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: On the Stump with Kenya's Leading Man
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Slumdog Politics
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Aleppo International
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Cherry Season in Aleppo
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: In Sudan, the Front Line Is Everywhere
  • + Who
    • A Life Removed
    • // Gallery: A Life Removed
    • Aboubacar
    • // Gallery: Aboubacar
    • Rivers of the Sahara
    • // Gallery: Rivers of the Sahara
    • In Search of Safety: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan
    • // Gallery: In Search of Safety: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan
    • Mahamadou
    • Gambling On The Margins
    • // Gallery: Gambling on the Margins
    • Building Life in South Sudan
    • The Tides of Italy
    • // Gallery: Arrival
    • // Gallery: Northward
    • Tramadol
    • Niamey Grand Prix
    • Aleppo International: Life | Behind The Wall
    • Learning to Fight in South Sudan
    • De.Limiting Lines: Abyei's Push for Definition
    • Pivot Nation
    • Inflection Points
    • Erbil
    • Sulaymaniyah
    • Diyarbakir
  • | We Are |
  • | Solito |
  • | Humanitarian |
    • Portraits from South Sudan
    • In Passing
    • In Rooms of Lives Lost
    • Alem
    • Assorted
    • The Wall Street Journal: Thousands Flock to Remote, Lawless Sahara in Search of Gold
    • The Wall Street Journal: "A Nest of Spies": Niger's Deserts Become Front Line
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: It Takes a Village to Kill a Child
    • The Wall Street Journal: Tramadol: The Opioid Crisis for the Rest of the World
    • The New Yorker
    • The Wall Street Journal: The 10,000 Kidnapped Boys of Boko Haram
    • The Wall Street Journal: 'African Dream' of Europe Turns Into a Nightmare
    • The Washington Post: 70 Miles and a World Away
    • Politico Magazine
    • The Wall Street Journal: Inside Europe's Migrant-Smuggling Rings
    • The Wall Street Journal: African Migrants Can't Reach Continent, But Can't Go Home
    • Time Magazine Lightbox
    • New York Times: In South Sudan, Government Troops Implicated in Violence
    • New York Times: Fleeing Conflict in South Sudan
    • The Wall Street Journal: Ebola's Long Shadow
    • New York Times: South Sudan's Kickboxing Team
    • The Wall Street Journal:: Allure of Wealth Drives Deadly Trek
    • The Wall Street Journal: Iraqi Christians Take Up Arms
    • The Wall Street Journal: Migrant Boom is Saharan Boon
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Catch Me If You Can
    • Al Jazeera English: Iraqis Flee to Kurdistan Region
    • Al Jazeera English: Iraq's Displaced Seek Safe Haven
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: The Migrants Who Make It
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: On the Stump with Kenya's Leading Man
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Slumdog Politics
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Aleppo International
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: Cherry Season in Aleppo
    • Foreign Policy Magazine: In Sudan, the Front Line Is Everywhere
  • + Who
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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
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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
 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 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
 Two senior-level managers speak as a coworker pours them more wine.
       
     
Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / Building Life 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 granted asylum quickly with relatively better financial support and social services as they try and start their new lives.
       
     
Displacement // Diaspora // Dislocation / // Gallery: Northward