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New Guidebook 'Europa' Gives Refugees Resource For Navigating Europe

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A shelter for refugees and asylum seekers in Herkulesstrasse in Cologne, Germany. (Courtesy Jerome Sessini/Magnum Photos)
A shelter for refugees and asylum seekers in Herkulesstrasse in Cologne, Germany. (Courtesy Jerome Sessini/Magnum Photos)

After years of covering the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe, and the war-torn countries many of those refugees are fleeing, a group of journalists and photographers decided something was missing: a guidebook for those coming to Europe. So they made one.

The book "Europa: An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees" is written in four languages — English, French, Arabic and Farsi — and it's part history primer, part guide book, part resource list.

Here & Now's Robin Young talks with one of the people behind the project, Belgian-Dutch journalist Lisa De Bode (@lisadebode), who's in Brussels distributing the books.

Photos From The Book
A refugee camp in Macedonia, 1999. (Cristina Garcia Rodero/Magnum Photos)
A refugee camp in Macedonia, 1999. (Cristina Garcia Rodero/Magnum Photos)
A boat coming from Libya is spotted and caught by the coast guards 35 miles away from Lampedusa, Italy in 2011. (Courtesy Patrick Zachmann/Magnum Photos)
A boat coming from Libya is spotted and caught by the coast guards 35 miles away from Lampedusa, Italy in 2011. (Courtesy Patrick Zachmann/Magnum Photos)
The train station on the Croatian-Serbian border, Sept. 17, 2015.  It was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and thousands of migrants waited for trains to take them to Zagreb, while Croatian riot police kept them fenced in. (Courtesy Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos)
The train station on the Croatian-Serbian border, Sept. 17, 2015. It was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and thousands of migrants waited for trains to take them to Zagreb, while Croatian riot police kept them fenced in. (Courtesy Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos)

This segment aired on December 12, 2016.

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