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Italy: Stranded in Castel Volturno
By Filippo Massellani
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 5 December 2009
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Stranded is the word that the African immigrants use when, crossing the Sahara desert to arrive in Europe, remain still, without money in an oasis of the desert, Dirkou or Agadez, without being able to move forward or go back.
Stranded is also the word that indicates the condition of African immigrants in Castel Volturno, [...]

Turkey: Gypsy Village
By Emre Kuheylan
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 19 October 2009
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This reportage was taken in a small gypsy village called Çırpı, about an hour away from Izmir, Turkey. Locals of the village came to Turkey around 1930s from Bulgaria and you can clearly see that they are still living in 1930s conditions.

Population of the village is around couple of hundreds and most of them [...]

France: Calais Illegal Immigrants. ‘Go to England’.
By Emmanuel Fradin
Posted in all, features, europe, news & global, slides on 14 October 2009
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In 2002, the refugee camp located in Sangatte was closed by the french authorities . In stead of stopping the problem, the closure of the camp deplaced the migration directly into Calais . The refugees now wander in the streets of the town, build huts in the nearby forests and industrial sites, at day time [...]

Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Camp, Unregistered
By Jared Katz
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 5 October 2009
Stats: 1,234 views and 1 Comment

The Rohingya are not recognized as Burmese citizens by the ruling military junta. Widespread abuse, rape, and oppression have caused hundreds of thousands to flee and find refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. Today, over 27,000 of these refugees remain unrecognized by the Bangladeshi government as legal refugees, and are left largely unsupported with nowhere to go; [...]

Italy: Migrant Prostitution
By Paolo Patrizi
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 2 September 2009
Stats: 1,904 views and 1 Comment

I drive along country roads on the outskirts of Rome and cannot help but notice scantly clad women dot the landscape. The majority are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their families. Some women are working by their own choice; others are not. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, [...]

India: Struggle, A Profession
By Zishaan Akbar Latif
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 30 August 2009
Stats: 761 views and 3 Comments

A man operates an ancient manual handloom in his makeshift house/warehouse where he produces raw cloth for further use that is transported to bigger cities from his village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. These men are paid a mere 2$s a day for being cheap daily wage labourers with which they are forced to feed [...]