For migrants fleeing war or poverty, the river crossing from Turkey to Greece has brought Europe close – perilously so.
![Only 10 percent of the bodies recovered from the Evros river are ever identified [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014630101936172734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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French police destroy camp with ‘deplorable hygiene’ inhabited by migrants hoping to find shelter in UK.
![France expelled about 650 migrants from camps in the northern port of Calais on Wednesday [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014528101439256734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Thousands of Syrian refugees in Bulgaria are living in overcrowded camps, held in limbo by EU bureaucracy.
![Syrian refugee children look through a window inside a Bulgarian Red Cross refugee centre [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20145581237247580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Germany has seen a rise in asylum claims while refugees face isolation and a backlash on the streets.
![Makeshift life for refugees at Oranienplatz in Berlin, Germany. Refugees, mainly from Africa, have been staying at the camp for a year now [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014437275610734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)