The Shortlist of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015
From There to Here
Immigration into Europe by people from different corners of the world is a phenomenon that has increased more and more over the last 30 years. What is the current status of the management of migration flows in Europe? What strategies have been implemented to manage - and often to oppose - the phenomenon? What are the results?
Europe has the important task of welcoming those who are looking for a safe place to live in: the old continent is surrounded by wars and socio-political upheavals, which are partly the result of wrong Western policies.
The increase in migration flows has not gone hand in hand with the development of policies for managing this phenomenon. As a matter of fact, in recent years, the EU has often responded by intensifying border controls, detention and expulsion of immigrants.
European borders (and European countries too) are filled with refugee camps inhabited by thousands of people waiting to hear about their future; thousands of human beings who have often suffered unprecedented violence as they were trying to reach the European continent. The management of migration flows is often regulated by laws that ignore the reality of the areas where migrants arrive; as the Dublin Regulation, which prevents the lawful movement of those people on the European territory, thus increasing the business of criminal groups, who profit from smuggling migrants, especially in transit and first reception countries.
In the last four years, the work of documenting this crisis covers most of the countries affected by this phenomenon; in particular those representing the doors of Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Spain; but also the nations that are passage territories for people looking for a better life, such as Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Serbia and Bulgaria.
Immigration into Europe by people from different corners of the world is a phenomenon that has increased more and more over the last 30 years. What is the current status of the management of migration flows in Europe? What strategies have been implemented to manage - and often to oppose - the phenomenon? What are the results?
Europe has the important task of welcoming those who are looking for a safe place to live in: the old continent is surrounded by wars and socio-political upheavals, which are partly the result of wrong Western policies.
The increase in migration flows has not gone hand in hand with the development of policies for managing this phenomenon. As a matter of fact, in recent years, the EU has often responded by intensifying border controls, detention and expulsion of immigrants.
European borders (and European countries too) are filled with refugee camps inhabited by thousands of people waiting to hear about their future; thousands of human beings who have often suffered unprecedented violence as they were trying to reach the European continent. The management of migration flows is often regulated by laws that ignore the reality of the areas where migrants arrive; as the Dublin Regulation, which prevents the lawful movement of those people on the European territory, thus increasing the business of criminal groups, who profit from smuggling migrants, especially in transit and first reception countries.
In the last four years, the work of documenting this crisis covers most of the countries affected by this phenomenon; in particular those representing the doors of Europe, such as Italy, Greece, Spain; but also the nations that are passage territories for people looking for a better life, such as Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Serbia and Bulgaria.
