Eurozine - Moving walls - Giovanni Cocco - http://www.eurozine.com/article...
Dec 4, 2014
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"Over the past 14 years, about 17,000 immigrants have perished in the Mediterranean, trying to overcome the material and virtual walls that surround the European Union today. That's 60 times the number of people who lost their lives attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 28 years."
- Maitani
"The management of migration flows over the last ten years has created a vast laboratory of repression in Europe. Public opinion has always been encouraged to consider the European Union an expression of historical achievements: breaking down borders, freedom of movement and prosperity for everybody. In reality, these achievements are only valid for European citizens."
- Maitani
"Today, Europe is a fortress that consists of laws, regulations and concrete walls designed to deny entry. I started this project in late 2010 in the region of Evros, Greece, with the journalist Fabrizo Gatti – on assignment for L'Espresso. There was talk of building a 12-kilometre-long fence, to block the migration flows at the only part of the border not on the River Evros, which constitutes the natural border between Greece and Turkey. Almost 70 per cent of immigrants choose this stretch of land in order to enter Europe. We observed it for days."
- Maitani
History will condemn us for this. #FestungEuropa
- Eivind
(btw Fabrizio Gatti is an amazing journalist)
- d☭snake
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