“The only crime that the inmates of Migrant Detention Centres (CIE) have committed is to cross some border or other, to be poor, and to be black, that's all. Remember that these people are the grandchildren of the slaves who were hunted down like animals and loaded onto ships...” Lamine Sarr. “Nobody sees the reality of Migrant Detention Centres, it's a hidden reality.” Aziz Faye.
Fronteras
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Presentation of collectives and debate. March 3, 2016 - Hall CCCB The Popular Union for Street Vendors aims to become a political lobby to defend the claims and needs of Barcelona's street vendors against persecution, discrimination and racism. The situations that street vendors find themselves in on a daily basis require a quick, organised response and first-hand communication with political authorities and the media, in their own voice.
Interview with Lucas Tello and Pedro Jiménez members of the collective Zemos98 of Seville.
- “It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that the supposedly civilised society that you fled to, seeking refuge, is so brutal.” -“People say: “get civilised”. But when you get civilised you realise that it’s the worst thing they could have taught you. Do you know what they mean by “getting civilised”? Have money, go shopping, spend money, and always keep in your head: I want more, more, more... Consume.” - the persistence of Eurocentrism in European dissidence. (*) Title of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last interview.
Tarajal: Dismantling Impunity on the Southern Border is a documentary research project by the production company Metromuster, which previously produced the influential activist documentary Ciutat Morta. It has been commissioned by Observatori DESC, which is collaborating in the research process. Tarajal is based on statements from migration experts, journalists, lawyers, police spokespersons, and activists, as well as official declarations from the Interior Ministry, edited together to reveal the many contradictions in the accounts of the events leading to the death of 15 migrants at Tarajal. Above all, it suggests that the events may not have simply been a matter of police negligence, but part of a strategy designed for the application of migration control policies.
The port of Tangiers is a transit zone, and many travelers and goods pass through each day in huge trucks bound for destinations all over Europe. This is why large numbers of children and adults live in the port, waiting for an opportunity to hide under one of the trucks and cross the border into the Schengen zone. Almost all of them have a home and a family. Locals spend some time there and then return to their homes to build up strength for the next attempt. Those whose homes are far away settle among the containers or find a more or less inconspicuous hideaway in the port. Abdelghani is one of the minors who has decided to leave his family in southern Morocco to try and cross over to Spain.
The cycle From the Imagined to the Tangible, proposes to present abstract ideas that help us to reflect on the reality where we live, immediate, concrete and material. Toni Serra, co-director of the OVNI Archives presents different pieces of the more than 2000 that this audiovisual archive has gathered over 21 years, offering us an uncomfortable vision of the century where we live, but also the dreams and desires of societies that do not see each other reflected in the imaginary of corporate media. Museum of World Cultures, Barcelona. 4th October 2016.
The 36th parallel is an imaginary line on a map and also the real site of clandestine emigration across the Gibraltar Strait.
Untitled“On Translation: Miedo/Jauf is not a work on African/European emigration/immigration. Nor is it a work on religion or on terrorism. Two different realities separated not by the sea but by border fences and boundaries on both sides. The search for the north, with its man-made paradises that for many remain lost; fear as an emotion/sensation inserted in the decision of crossing. The construction of the south as a fiction/reality linked to phenomena of the unknown, exoticism and difference”.
UntitledIn a bid to reach a better life, hundreds of Moroccan kids sneak into Melilla, a Spanish enclave in the north of Morocco. This is the story of Said, a deaf Moroccan boy stuck in this Spanish portion of Africa, awed by a false sense of prosperity, tries to jump into one of the many boats that will take him to the peninsula and eventually to the fulfillment of his European dream.
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