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In the final episode, we are in Calais. More than 25,000 migrants have crossed the Channel to the UK. Still more wait on the French coast hoping for the chance to cross. Drownings, police patrols and evictions make migrants' lives hard and more precarious but do little to dissuade them from their aim, a new life in the UK.
Increasing numbers of migrants attempt to cross into France over the mountains, but this route can be dangerous. Refuges have been opened, and closed, as authorities and volunteers differ over how best to accommodate those who have arrived.
High up in the Italian Alps, more and more migrants attempt to take remote and dangerous snowy paths through the mountains to evade police detection and make it into France. Many stop for a day at the volunteer refuges in towns like Oulx before taking a bus up to the border at Claviere to begin the trek on foot in the dead of night.
Anthony from Liberia has spent the past seven months in a reception center for asylum seekers in the town of Eisenhüttenstadt in east Germany, near the Polish border. This is his story.