Baneen* and Layla* were Iranian teens dreaming of a better life. With the help of an older cousin, the 17-year-old friends travelled to Turkey, where they were placed in the hands of a Kurdish-based group of smugglers, who moved them to the infamous Calais camp on the French coast. I met with Baneen in a makeshift tent in the sand dunes. She told me she was nervous about her plans to cross the Channel in what she feared might be an overcrowded b…
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