Life on Lesbos: what's happening to the refugees there?

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Harriet Grant travelled to the Greek island of Lesbos to report on the crisis playing out in its refugee camps. Plus: Lisa O’Carroll on Sinn Féin’s election success

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For people fleeing countries including Syria and Afghanistan, Lesbos became a gateway into Europe, with hundreds of thousands of migrants passing through the island at the height of the crisis in 2015.

Now there are far fewer people coming. But as Europe has made it harder for people to begin a new life on the continent, those that have risked the journey are finding themselves trapped. With the island’s main camp, Moria, at capacity, thousands are being forced to build shelters around it. Rachel Humphreys talks to the Guardian reporter Harriet Grant, who recently travelled to Lesbos, and to Philip Worthington, a lawyer withEuropean Lawyers in Lesvos.

And: Guardian reporter Lisa O’Carroll on Sinn Féin’s election success.

Archive: BBC; ITN

Greece/Lesbos/ Jan 12,2020.
A child poses for a photo at the makeshift camp set next to Moria, on the island of Lesbos, Greece.
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Photograph: Giorgos Moutafis/The Guardian
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