Greece, Italy and Spain are just beginning to grapple with large numbers of migrants. So far, they’re failing.
Loose Ends
An illegal immigrant looks for a place to spend the night as he walks next to an olive tree in the small village of Galapagar near Jaen, Spain.Samuel Aranda / Getty
Squatter
A migrant carries a bucket of water up the stairs in the abandoned former appeals court in Athens where he lives. Hundreds of mainly African migrants live in squalid conditions in the building, which sits just a block away from the National Theater and one of the capital's main squares.Louisa Goulimaki / AFP / Getty
Work
Albanian migrants pick olives in the Greek village of Stimaga. The arrival of thousands of migrants to Greece, mainly from Albania, Bulgaria and Romania, has had a positive impact on the country's agricultural sector.Louisa Goulimaki / AFP / Getty
Horizon
A group of African men who arrived on La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands waits to be transferred to an official detention center. Africans wash up on the Canary Islands at a rate of two to three boatloads a day.Desiree Martin / AFP / Getty
Expanse
Italian customs police approach a boat loaded with illegal immigrants off the island of Lampedusa. Tens of thousands of immigrants land on the Italian coast each year, most of them coming from north Africa on ramshackle boats.Marco di Lauro / Getty
At Sea
The Greek Coast Guard stops an inflatable boat packed with migrants at the maritime border between Greece and Turkey near the Greek island of Agathonissi. The island has been overwhelmed by migrants, some of whom sleep outdoors and beg for food on the streets.Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty
Makeshift
A Somali migrant washes himself at a makeshift camp on a beach in the Greek port city of Patras.Louis Goulimaki / AFP / Getty
In the Dark
A would-be migrant arrives at a harbor in Spain's Canary Islands after being brought to shore by a Spanish marine rescue boat.Desiree Martin / AFP / Getty
Out
A group of Kurdish migrants who landed on the island of Corsica leave a detention center after being released by a judge. It was the largest known group of migrants to wash up on the French island; most try to enter Europe through Italy, Malta, Greece or Spain.Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / Getty
Shelter?
An Afghan migrant walks by a makeshift camp in the Greek port town of Patras.AFP / Getty
Emerging
A migrant worker leaves the silo where he sleeps in a former oil factory in the southern Italian town of Rosarno. All of the migrants were recently moved from the town after violent clashes with local residents.Carlo Hermann / AFP / Getty
Shirtless
Migrants stand in the yard of the abandoned former appeals court where they live in Athens following clashes with members of an ultra-nationalist Greek group. Violence between locals and illegal immigrants is on the rise in southern Europe.Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty
