Discover Melilla, the Southern Frontier in Europe’s Migrant Crisis | TIME

Melilla, the Southern Frontier in Europe’s Migrant Crisis

Melilla is a modern-day fortress that holds the promise of better lives for migrants

via Time: http://time.com/3923104/melilla-migrant-crisis/

“It’s the border of the border,” says Gianfranco Tripodo. The Italian photographer has spent the last three years documenting migrants’ attempts to climb Melilla’s fence. “When I started to work in Melilla, there was so little coverage of the migrants’ situation,” he explains. “And I wanted to see with my own eyes the tangible and real consequences of the European Union’s migration policies on thousands of people.”