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A Migrant’s Journey: 1 Week, 30,000 People, 2,500 Miles

The number of refugees landing on European shores this year has already topped 380,000, according to the UN. That’s well ahead of the 215,000 that arrived in 2014, and there are still four months left in the year.

Tens of thousands of migrants, mostly Syrians, are now stretched across southeastern Europe, making a perilous journey in buses, by rail, on small rubber rafts, and on foot. They are crossing borders, leaping fences, fleeing detainment centers, dodging police forces, and pleading for help as they hope to reach Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, and other welcoming countries, looking for safer, better lives.

A refugee from Syria prays after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos—aboard an inflatable raft across the Aegean Sea from Turkey—on September 7, 2015.

A police officer hits a man with a baton as he tries to maintain order while migrants wait for trains at a temporary camp near Gevgelija, Macedonia, on September 7, 2015.

A migrant boy gestures while looking at a police officer near a makeshift camp for asylum-seekers in Roszke, southern Hungary, on September 9, 2015.

Hundreds of migrants and refugees continue to cross the border from Serbia into Hungary along the railway tracks close to the village of Roszke on September 6, 2015, in Szeged, Hungary.

Migrants sleep on the railway tracks close to Greece’s Macedonian border on September 6, 2015.

A local man gestures to Syrian refugees on a raft approaching the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos on September 4, 2015.

A man carries a child as migrants and refugees arrive on a raft after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on September 8, 2015.

A Syrian family reacts after arriving, with others, on the island of Lesbos aboard a raft from Turkey on September 7, 2015.

Migrants line up as they wait for a registration procedure at the port of northeastern Greek island of Lesbos on September 5, 2015.

Syrian refugees cross into Hungary underneath the border fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, Hungary, on August 26, 2015.

A migrant jumps over a road-protection fence after leaving a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, on September 9, 2015.

A Macedonian policeman stands amid migrants and refugees who wait to cross the border of Greece and Macedonia near the town of Idomeni, northern Greece, on September 7, 2015.

Migrants run across a highway from a collection point that had been set up to transport people to camps on September 9, 2015, in Morahalom, Hungary.

A man is confronted by a Hungarian police officer with a dog as he holds his daughter while migrants run across a highway in Morahalom, Hungary.

An aid worker distributes bread and supplies to migrants at a transition camp in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia, on September 7, 2015.

Migrants cook corn they foraged from nearby fields as they rest near the Serbian border with Hungary on September 7, 2015, in Horgos, Serbia.

Refugees warm up their hands over hot ash from a bonfire at a migrant collection point near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border on September 8, 2015.

Refugees are smuggled through fields and forests in an attempt to evade the Hungarian police close to the Serbian border on September 8, 2015 in Roszke, Hungary.

Refugees and migrants wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia on September 7, 2015.

(1 of 4) A Hungarian police officer stops migrants as they try to escape in a field near a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary.

(2 of 4) A migrant runs with a child before being tripped by TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo (left) and falling as he tries to escape from a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, on September 8, 2015.

(3 of 4) The migrant falls with his child, after being tripped by TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo as he tried to escape.

(4 of 4) The fleeing migrant falls on top of his child after being tripped.

An injured Syrian refugee walks along a railway line leading from Serbia into Hungary near Horgos on September 1, 2015.

Hungarian police officers secure the bus that will take migrants near the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, Hungary.

A young migrant boy tries on shoes donated by the people of Hungary at Keleti station in Budapest on September 7, 2015.

People welcome refugees with a banner reading “Welcome to Germany” in Dortmund, Germany, on September 6, 2015, where thousands of migrants and refugees arrived by train.

A Syrian family arrives at the train station in Saalfeld, Germany, on September 5, 2015.

Hungarian policemen approach a family of migrants as they try to run away at the railway station in the town of Bicske, Hungary, on September 3, 2015.

Migrants rush to cross into Macedonia after Macedonian police allowed a small group of people to pass through a passageway, as they try to regulate the flow of migrants at the Macedonian-Greek border on September 2, 2015.

Hungarian police escort migrants back to a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, on September 9, 2015.

Migrants gather outside the closed Eastern Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, on September 2, 2015, after they were disallowed from boarding trains bound for Germany.

Migrants try to break through police lines before running over a motorway from a collection point that had been set up to transport people to camps on September 9, 2015, in Morahalom, Hungary.

A migrant child plays with bubbles at Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary, on September 6, 2015.

Migrants who had crossed the Serbian border into Hungary fight to get on a bus taking people to a refugee camp in Morahalom, Hungary.

A refugee child cries as she sits on an overcrowded bus transporting refugees and migrants to the metro and train stations.

Migrants walk out of Budapest, Hungary, on September 4, 2015.

A migrant father holds his child as they warm themselves by the fire in a makeshift camp at a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary, on September 8, 2015.