1. A Migrant’s Journey: 1 Week, 30,000 People, 2,500 Miles
A photo essay – 35 photos September 1 – September Photos compiled by Alan Taylor

2. A Migrant’s Journey: 1 Week, 30,000 People, 2,500 Miles
The number of refugees landing on European shores in 2015 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 south-eastern Europe, making a perilous journey in buses, by rail, on small rubber rafts, and on foot.

3. A Migrant’s Journey: 1 Week, 30,000 People, 2,500 Miles
They are crossing borders, leaping fences, fleeing detainment centres, 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.
Nations along the route are straining to accommodate the huge influx, and tensions are running high.
The 35 images below are from just the first week in September, as another 30,000 people entered Europe by sea and began their trek north.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Hundreds of migrants and refugees continue to cross the border from Serbia into Hungary along the railway tracks

7. Migrants sleep on the railway tracks close to Greece’s Macedonian border

8. A man carries a child as migrants and refugees arrive on a raft after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece. 20,000 have arrived on this small island

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

10. Life vests left on the shore by incoming refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos

11. Migrants line up as they wait for a registration procedure at the port of north-eastern Greek island of Lesbos

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

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

14. A Macedonian policeman stands amid migrants and refugees who wait to cross the border of Greece and Macedonia

15. An aid worker distributes bread and supplies to migrants at a transition camp in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia

16. Migrants cook corn they foraged from nearby fields as they rest near the Serbian border with Hungary

17. 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

18. Refugees are smuggled through fields and forests in an attempt to evade the Hungarian police close to the Serbian border in Hungary

19. Refugees and migrants wait to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia

20. 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

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

22. An injured Syrian refugee walks along a railway line leading from Serbia into Hungary

23. People welcome refugees with a banner reading “Welcome to Germany” in Dortmund, Germany

24. A young migrant boy tries on shoes donated by the people of Hungary at Keleti station in Budapest

25. A Syrian family arrives at the train station in Saalfeld, Germany

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

27. Migrants’ tents are blown off by the wind near a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary

28. A Syrian man carrying a child (left) scuffles with a Hungarian nationalist in front of the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary

29. Migrants rush to cross into Macedonia after Macedonian police allowed a small group of people to pass through a passageway on the Macedonian-Greek border

30. Hungarian police escort migrants back to a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary

31. A young migrant boy clowns as he crosses the Hungarian-Serbian border with his family near Roszke, Hungary

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

33. 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 in Hungary

34. A migrant child plays with bubbles at Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary

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

36. A refugee child cries as she sits on an overcrowded bus transporting refugees to the metro and train stations, after they disembarked from a government-chartered ferry in Athens

37. Migrants walk out of Budapest, Hungary trying to leave for richer EU countries

38. A migrant holds a child as they warm themselves by the fire in a makeshift camp at a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary