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| returning to Jakarta after a failed attempt Joel Van Houdt |
How desperate and yet hopeful must someone feel before he/she is willing to risk the unknown and even death? And what makes some take that risk of becoming a refugee while others remain and suffer in silence and still others choose to become part of the system? Journalist Luke Mogelson and photographer Joel Van Houdt accompany a group of Middle Eastern and Central Asian asylum seekers who managed to make it to Jakarta on their dangerous 200-mile crossing to Christmas Island.
If you read one article all year, make it this one (story, photos, video):
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/the-impossible-refugee-boat-lift-to-christmas-island.html?hpw&rref=magazine&_r=0
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