Nora Lorek (Mid Sweden University)
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Solidarity
Laura Wauty is here with her mother Appolonie Ngono to show solidarity with the victims of the attacks in Brussels. People gathered at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels on Tuesday evening to light candles, leave flowers to remember the victims of the attacks terrror.
Cate & Grace
Mr. William Katende, his wife and 6 children are living at their farm about 300 meters north of the equator in eastern Uganda. For some years they have been helped by NGOs to develop their way of working more sustainably and even make a higher profit. Here they produce their own food and have become economically independent. Mr. Katende owns six hectares to grow a lot of Matoke (bananas) and everything else they need for subsistence.The family sells about 50 percent of everything they produce and gets the opportunity to buy meat, invest in things like their water tank and to pay the school fees for their kids. – Before we changed our way of working we had some serious problems with our finances. Like paying the school fees. But not we can even afford to let all our kids go to good schools. During vacation they come back home to help us at the farm, says William Katende.Twelve years ago they bought a small solar system to have some light inside and a small TV running. The sisters Cate Nabatanzi and Grace Carol Nabajja love to watch musicvideos on the TV and use to dress up to dance wile watching it or for taking a walk along the neighborhood and to the other side of the Equator.
Student life
The end of a friday night at KÃ¥renhuset, a student bar in Sundsvall, Sweden.
Grace
Nine year old Grace Carol Nabajja is praying in the morning before going out on the fields to work. Her dad Mr. William Katende, owns a farm about 300 meters north of the equator in eastern Uganda. For some years they have been helped by NGOs to develop their way of working more sustainably and even make a higher profit. Here they produce their own food and have become economically independent. Mr. Katende owns six hectares to grow a lot of Matoke (bananas) and everything else they need for subsistence.The family sells about 50 percent of everything they produce and gets the opportunity to buy meat, invest in things like their water tank and to pay the school fees for their kids.
The Dip
Hönökonferensen is a Christian conference, since 1945 organized by Hönö missionary congregation which belongs Uniting Church in Sweden. Five thousand visitors come to the island for a week of Christian education.
The Dip
People on the rocks, twelve baptismal candidates in white.One of them is Ali from Iran. He has lived in Sweden for ten months and applied for asylum here. His parents and siblings still live in Iran and are Yazidis which is why Ali had to leave the country because they're threatened by ISIS.
New fences
As England is still refusing to take further migrants this past year alone 12 million pounds had been spent on reinforcing fences around the Calais highway and the entrance of the Eurotunnel. In January 2016 France brought in bulldozers to smash a third of the Calais refugee camp called Jungle and make 1500 of them to move in the new government-built container apartments. By now there’re about 9000 people still living in the Jungle. Summer 2016 they build new fences. In October 2016 they will begin the final eviction of the refugee camp
The burning camp
Jungle refugee camp, Calais. Many refugees lost their homes during the demolition of the southern part of the Jungle in February/March 2016. The options for the roughly 3000 who lost their homes were to apply for asylum in France, moving to the previously built containers or trying to find housing in another camp. Many, however, choose to move to acquaintances in the northern parts of the Jungle which grew dramatically during the year. Volunteers and refugees were protesting during the demolition and the CRS (French riot control forces) responded with tear gas and water cannon. Several people chose to set their shelter on fire before the forces could destroy it. Others caught on fire because of the tear gas. It took two weeks until the southern area except from a school and the church was demolished.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Macklemore holding a speech about todays conflicts in the world and the importance of taking care of each other. He and Ryan Lewis were playing at Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
European Jungle
Dandan, Wessam and Ibrahim from Daraa in Syria met here in the fall of 2015 and moved in together shortly thereafter. Back then there were about 3500 refugees in the camp and new people arriving every day. In the north part of the Jungle they settled at an area for Syrians, mostly from Daraa. The first few months they tried to get on trains and trucks, but in the end they managed to collect money and chose to pay for smugglers. Even with smugglers they failed dozens of times. Since July 2016, all three are with their relatives in the UK and claimed asylum.
Story: European Jungle
A Family of Strangers
Dandan, Wessam and Ibrahim from Daraa in Syria met here in the fall of 2015 and moved in together shortly thereafter. Back then there were about 3500 refugees in the camp and new people arriving every day. In the north part of the Jungle they settled at an area for Syrians, mostly from Daraa. The first few months they tried to get on trains and trucks, but in the end they managed to collect money and chose to pay for smugglers. Even with smugglers they failed dozens of times. Since July 2016, all three are with their relatives in the UK and claimed asylum.
Story: European Jungle
Restaurants and shops
By now there’re about 70 restaurants, shops and several barber shops. Especially at night and early in the morning there’re a lot of people going to get some food and tea after been trying to get to the UK. In spring 2015 many new restaurants were built because of the increasing number of arriving refugees. In the beginning many could afford to buy the cheap food but after months of failing attempts to cross the border many had no money left and the several restaurant businesses went down.
Story: European Jungle
The first eviction
Many refugees lost their homes during the demolition of the southern part of the Jungle in February/March 2016. The options for the roughly 3000 who lost their homes were to apply for asylum in France, moving to the previously built containers or trying to find housing in another camp. Many, however, choose to move to acquaintances in the northern parts of the Jungle which grew dramatically during the year.
Story: European Jungle
Tear gas and water cannon
Volunteers and refugees were protesting during the demolition and the CRS (French riot control forces) responded with tear gas and water cannon. Several people chose to set their shelter on fire before the forces could destroy it. Others caught on fire because of the tear gas. It took two weeks until the southern area except from a school and the church was demolished.
Story: European Jungle
Traffic jam
During traffic jam refugees are trying to stop the trucks to get time to cut them up or to open the lock and get on board. Those who don’t manage to break into are hiding between the tires where the risk of being pinched and trapped is high.In 2015, more than 30 refugees were killed on the highway or by train while trying to get from Calais to the UK.The majority of those who run after the trucks have tried to cross the border for several months. Police checks have increased in 2016 and made it almost impossible to succeed without paying for smugglers.
Story: European Jungle
Close to the Eurotunnel
On December 17, 2015, word spread traffic jam near the tunnel and many marched to the highway to try to climb up on the trucks and make it over to the UK.Shortly thereafter the French police responded with tear gas grenades.At the end of this evening at least twenty Syrians had managed to cross the border in lorries.
Story: European Jungle
Barbershop
Faloan Deoana from Afghanistan opened one of many barbershops in the camp in December. They have three barbers and 14 showers. A haircut costs five euros, a hot shower in the winter three. 
â€Particularly in an escape attempt with bought passports it’s important to look good and well groomedâ€, he says. Faloan has like many others stopped trying and plans to keep on with his business until there’s a chance for him to make it to UK.
Story: European Jungle
Mama
Wessam, 21, and his parents fled Syria just before the war broke out and ended up in Jordan. He had to leave his family and arrived in the Jungle October 21, 2015. Among the guys from Daraa, he is called Mama because he’s cooking in their neighborhood. After many attempts and eight months in the camp he was finally united with his brother in Manchester.
Story: European Jungle
From Sudan to Buckingham Palace
Assadik Eshady, 22 from Sudan. He recently applied for asylum in France and left his fingerprint two weeks ago. When the picture was taken, he had lived in the jungle for seven months. "I do not want to risk being hit by a truck and die like several of my friends hereâ€, de said about his decision of applying for asylum in France He started talking about the 18 hours journey by boat from Libya to Italy. "We sat in rows, close proximity to each other so that more would fit. Every time someone died, we had to throw out the person in the water to get a bit more space. Others have it worse and go with about 20 people in rubber boats that nobody knows if the boat will last. " In their small block they call the Buckingham Palace refugees from Ghana, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia are living together. In the middle there’s a large tent with many holes so it can be used as fire tent to keep up the heat at night.
Story: European Jungle
Junglebusiness
When taking a break from trying to cross the border at night many of them meet at restaurants or like here at a disco. But most of them prefer hanging out with friends in the shops where they can buy everything from soft drinks to mobile chargers and SIM cards. In the evenings the owners are drying tobacco in a pan to make â€jungle cigarettes†as everyone here calls them. Tobacco, filters and papers are imported from Belgium and every big shop makes about a thousand cigarettes per day. A package of ten costs one Euro and thousand cigarettes gives a profit of around ten Euro.
Story: European Jungle
"Everything is just temporary"
Hadi Elya, 19, is from Pakistan and lives here with her cousins and Zeeshan and Haider. He lived in Austria for 8 months, but did not get a residence permit. After six months in the Jungle, they decided to apply for asylum in France. Now they’ve been waiting for a response and a place to live since February, 2016. He is trying to keep spirits up and rattles off some of his favorite phrases while on the way to the restaurant to charge mobiles. "Everything is just temporary." "God has no religion. We're all human beings, it's all about humanity.â€
Story: European Jungle
90 minutes
Police is patrolling around the clock at the beach near the ferry port. Here the refugees have up to four minutes to run along the one kilometer long open beach area and then get past the fences and hide on the other side before the next patrol has passed. There are only few who manage to get all the way to the ferry parking lot and who are not detected in the truck controls or scanner. Once on the ferry it takes 90 minutes to Dover in the UK.
Jungle is the nickname given to a refugee camp in the vicinity of Calais, France.
In September 2016 the Jungle had expanded try tripling its size of population during the last year. 9000 men, women and unaccompanied children were living in mud, tents or temporary shelters they’d build themselves and decorate as best as possible. They all have the same goal: to enter the UK.
The infrastructure of the Jungle has developed rapidly. There are churches and mosques built of sticks, tarpaulins and plastic, papered with blankets. Blankets from home, blankets that are warming, blankets with Big Ben. Syrians, Afghans, Sudanese, Kuwaitis, Kurds, Pakistanis and many more live side by side among the seventy restaurants, shops and hairdressers that stretches along the main street through the camp.
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Story: Waiting for Morrissey
Waiting for Morrissey
Fans during the first song at Morrisseys concert at way out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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