The Greatest Migration portrays the third world country’s struggle to migrate into the city. Half of the world’s population live in cities, and one third of these city dwellers live in squatter communities. These squatter villages are plagued with disease; children growing up in these areas are fifty percent more likely to die by age five than those born in more affluent countries. The speed of population growth is the problem, and that fact that we can’t do anything about it. In the nineteenth century, renowned photographer Jacob Riis photographed poverty, enough to open the eyes of the New York government to help the squatters in their city. This is what Sebastião Salgado is trying to achieve. We are interested in this because it is a less publicized world problem that is more immediate than people realize; we hope to open the world’s eyes about it too.
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