11/07/2013
The rules on family migration, migrants’ access to healthcare and housing and the verdict on Tuesday of the unlawful killing of Jimmy Mubenga who died while being deported…; immigration is back in the news.
For refugees and undocumented migrants however, their situation never goes away.
We present a selection of the twenty photographs taken by refugees in five European countries. These were exhibited in the European Parliament from 27-30 November 2012.
Refugees with JRS-UK contributed to a photography exhibition at the European Parliament in Brussels. The images, taken with help from Fotosynthesis Community, are now available on-line at: My Life As A Refugee
Photography may help us to travel in new ways. Elodie (Italy)
Travelling on the bus, on the train… seeking for protection is a long journey. We need documents, we need a job. We need to find our path in a new land, coming to terms with nostalgy, with the impossibility of going back to our own country. Attending a party and joking with friends is a good way to find new energies. To build a relation of mutual acknowledgement. Even if we depend on other people’s aid for many things, we too can feel Italian! Elodie (Italy)
There was a place where I could feel being real in nature
when I looked around, I could see only greenery.
Six-year-old refugee from Eritrea at a summer camp organised for children of all nationalities by the Organisation for Friendship in Diversity (OFD). The two-week summer camp was held between 3 and 14 September and around 80 children from Africa, Asia, the US and Europe attended. Mohammed Kemal (Malta)
