In the previous episode of “The Journey,” Aboud Shalhoub stood at the arrivals area in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, holding a bouquet of tulips and tapping a pole with anticipation. Then his wife, Christine, and their two children rounded a corner, and the children hugged their father for the first time in three years as Christine looked on, weeping silently and waiting her turn. The odyssey was complete, but the family’s new life in the Netherlands had just begun. “I wish we could have this life in our country,” Christine told the filmmaker, Matthew Cassel. “I’m a refugee. But maybe just for a while.”

Now, as Aboud and Christine study Dutch and adjust to life in the Netherlands, they do so against a tide of nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment, expressed in rhetoric and violence. Last year in Europe, there were more than a thousand documented attacks against refugees, asylum centers, and Islamic institutions. A few miles from extremist right-wing protests, Aboud tends to his garden. He has found work, too; a kind Dutchman saw it as his Christian duty to help refugees. The Damascene jeweller now makes molds for concrete blocks.

“I get five Dutch news channels,” Aboud tells Cassel, in the final installment of “The Journey.” “All they talk about is refugees. Refugees on the border, refugees dying, refugees in the sea. We shouldn't keep talking about the refugee crisis, but rather the reason they became refugees,” he says. “We have a crisis in our country. Let’s figure out how to solve it.”

This week, The New Yorker, in collaboration with Field of Vision, is featuring “The Journey,” which documents Shalhoub’s travels in six episodes.

For more about Aboud Shalhoub's family and the story behind “The Journey,” read an interview with the documentary’s director, Matthew Cassel.