A year after the European Union closed its borders to stem a crush of asylum seekers, tens of thousands still languish in camps inside Greece. They outfit unfamiliar surroundings with the trappings of home, seeking a semblance of normalcy. I toured several of these camps recently. At another, Skaramagas, near the port of Piraeus, home-cooked meals brought a flash of joy to dreary days. A neighbor who joined, Abdulrahman Alo, the man in the rear of the photograph below, lost both legs in a bomb attack in Syria.

Source: New York Times March 02, 2017 17:58 UTC