Living at the Border: Refugee and Migrant Stories from Italy
Guest post by Asha Siad and Roda Siad, creators of #Living_at_the_Border, a multimedia project that documents migrant and refugee stories in Italy. Asha and Roda are Somali-Canadian documentary filmmakers and researchers based in Calgary. Documenting the realities of African refugees and migrants, Living at the Border captures everyday life in Italy. Through their personal stories, this project shows the complexity of their lives as they navigate through the asylum system in Europe.
The European Union implemented the Dublin II Regulation in 2003 to deal with the uncontrolled movement of asylum seekers. The act states refugees must stay in the country they first enter and wait for their papers to be processed. However, this policy in practice simply has not been working. A decade later, the Dublin III Regulation was implemented with the goal of solving the problems left by the first regulation. Due to the lack of government support in Italy, refugees end up living in abandoned public buildings or on the street. Our goal was to document the realities of these individuals in hopes of bringing their issues to the forefront.
▻http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/living-at-the-border
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