23-year old Gambian man Lamin, an assumed name, walks in front of blocks of flats during an interview with AFP on the outskirts of Moscow on February 27, 2019.
In a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, Lamin has little more than the clothes and the Bible he brought with him when he came to Russia on a temporary World Cup visa last summer.
A church friend told him Russia would be easy to enter during the period it was hosting the football tournament.“I was confused, I had no place to stay, the situation was tough,” he said. There is little hope, however, of it being granted. Official figures show that in 2017, Russia gave full refugee status to just 33 people.The “Fan IDs” were originally valid just for the period of the World Cup, but President Vladimir Putin later announced they could be used for re-entry until the end of 2018.
Daniel, who has worked with African migrants in Moscow for 10 years but did not want to give his last name nor where he works for fear of repercussions, said the World Cup had brought the biggest wave of arrivals he had ever seen..One such immigrant is Solomon, who came during the World Cup to watch Nigeria play — his home side. He already had plans to stay on after the tournament.“In Nigeria, there is no job, no good politics, no good life,” the engineering graduate said.
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