A 21st-Century Migrant’s Essentials: Food, Shelter, Smartphone (Published 2015)

Afghans used a generator-powered charging station this month at a camp in Calais, France. The camp's inhabitants hope to cross the Channel to Britain.Credit...Peter Nicholls/Reuters BELGRADE, Serbia — The tens of thousands of migrants who have flooded into the Balkans in recent weeks need food, water and shelter, just like the millions displaced by war the world over. But there is also one other t