Italian website Storie migranti's migrant hell
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Sara Prestianni
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Astrid vW'Migrant stories'' recounts immigrants’ stories, documents first-hand experiences, collects accounts and then transmits them. The reports that travel across the 'symbolic places' on the borders of Europe are like a ship that often runs aground in an island harbour
The forests around Nador and Bel Younes, the migrants continue toward the port of Nouadhibou and Saint-Louis, where they no longer see barbed wire borders, but instead the sea. This is one crossing as told by migrants who arrive in the Canaries
The fatigue of 800 miles on the sea, the arrival at the port and the welcome, quickly followed by the police station. The sheds, the detention centres, under military tents. Behind the barriers the images become more fluid. Photograph their arrival, yes, but not the imprisonment, nor the deportation to either their country of origin or to Spain
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Translated from Storie Migranti: destinazione Canarie