At Greek Port, Migrants Dream and Despair

Today, about 100 Afghan, Iranian and Sudanese migrants live in two deserted textile and wood factories opposite the main ferry terminal in Greece's western port of Patras, living off food scraps and without electricity. Some arrived recently, others have lived there for as long as two years. Each day, some try to jump over a high fence into the terminal in the hope of sneaking onto a ferry set for Italy, where they dream of a better life than in crisis-hit Greece, where jobs are scarce and sympathy even harder to find. Others hide by the roadside, dashing to scramble underneath trucks waiting at traffic lights before entering the ferry terminal.