The Guardian is teaming up with Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País to report from inside refugee communities in four of Europe’s biggest countries. The series will assess whether promises are being kept, whether newcomers are changed by their experiences in European society – and vice versa.
Over the coming year, we plan to follow four newly arrived families in the UK, Germany, Spain and France to see how their experiences of asylum and immigration differ.
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Like the people it covers, the migration story is on the move. In 2014 and 2015 it was all about the odyssey made by hundreds of thousands into Europe. In 2016, it was about Europe’s hesitant response, the political backlash.
In 2017, the focus is turning to the people who are suddenly in our midst. How are they adapting to their new lives? Which European countries are best at helping refugees settle? And what do the new arrivals make of the rising tide of resentment that they encounter in this populist age?
In Britain, the Guardian will be charting the fortunes of a nine-year-old Afghan boy, who fled the Taliban with his parents and six siblings, but became separated from all but his father on the way.
Wali and Said now eke out an uncertain existence in Derby, knowing nothing of their missing relatives, their adopted country or their future here. Over the next year, we will periodically check in on them to see how they’re doing.
