Coastguard teams of the Tunisian National Guard conduct an operation against migrants who want to reach Europe illegally via the Mediterranean Sea, off the city of Sfax in Tunisia on August 12, 2023. Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Workers separate waste at a recycling factory, Antalya, Turkey, 2021. Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesHayat and Khalid load plastic into a dilapidated shredder at the plastic recycling factory where they live and work in the Cebeci industrial district of Istanbul. Photo courtesy of the author.Hayat takes a rest from shredding plastic waste to call his mother in Afghanistan at the plastic recycling factory where he lives and works in the Cebeci industrial district of Istanbul. Photo courtesy of the author.Naseem in the converted storage closet he shared as a bedroom with Hayat and Khalid. Naseem has managed to leave Turkey, arriving in Europe in the summer of 2023 after more than a year living and working in the factory. Photo courtesy of the author.
Awadiya Mahmoud hands out free tea to protesters on May 3, 2019 in Khartoum, Sudan. Awadiya started selling tea in 1983 and by 2013 she had organized numerous community groups for tea sellers and a union to organize them. David Degner/Getty Images.
Workers in Metema, Ethiopia, load luggage that belongs to refugees from Sudan who fled the fighting in Khartoum, May 5, 2023. Amanuel Sileshi/AFP/Getty Images
Jamila Debbech Ksiksi, 2014. Photo courtesy of Ennahda party.Jamila Debbech Ksiksi with some of her colleagues in Ennahda, September 2014. Photo courtesy Ennahda party.Mahmoud Rassaa, Jamila Debbech Ksiksi and Shreya Parikh on November 30, 2022, during their interview.
Sudanese workers, who lost their jobs due to the deteriorating economic situation in Lebanon, protest outside their country’s embassy in Beirut to demand repatriation, on July 2, 2020. Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images
An Indian worker sells Indian fritters to Emiratis during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the neighborhood of Al Quoz in Dubai, UAE, 2019. Satish Kumar/Reuters