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African migrant workers harvest in Spain vegetables and fruits for supermarkets in northern Europe. They earn below the minimum wage and live in deplorable conditions, in selfmade houses with no acces to clean drinking water and electricity. Covid-19 has drastically worsened conditions for migrant workers around the world, this is also the case in Spain. More migrants had arrived from Africa, because of the bad economic situation in their country due to COVID-19, also there was less work in Spain and migrant workers couldn’t return to Africa or move freely within Spain.
camp of despair
The refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos is overcrowded. It is built for 2,500 people, but now hosts about 7,500 refugees. The living conditions are poor with limited access to proper sanitation facilities, medical care, or nutritious food. There are frequent clashes, riots and it is harming the mental health of the refugees. Medecins Sans Frontieres says it is dealing with children as young as 10 contemplating suicide. Every day new refugees arrive on the island. The refugees are stranded on the island, unable to move forward, toward the opportunity they had hoped to find in Europe, since the EU-Turkey Deal two years ago. The deal has placed a disproportionate burden on Greece, the Mayor of Lesbos referred to the island as “Europe’s Guantanamo bay.”
in the jungle
The Calais Jungle was the last stop between continental Europe and Great Britain, from which refugees and migrants attempt the short and often lethal journey across the English Channel. Between 6.000 and 10.000 people from the Middle East and North Africa were living in this shantytown in France. In October 2016 there was a huge fire and the camp was cleared.
gimme shelter
This story is about refugees and migrants who came to Austria to seek protection and search for possibilities to build a new life in the context of rising populism...
turkish spring
What started as a peaceful demonstration over the planned demolition of the Gezi-park in Istanbul, evolved into widespread revolt after the violence police crackdown, with protesters expressing anger over the policies of Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan, who refused to listen to their demands.
stains of steel
The area around Liege - Belgium is an old industrial site which at the beginning of the last century was essentiel for the economic development of the region...
hidden past
In the early hours of 10 November, 1938, the Nazis instigated an orgy of destruction and violence against Jews...
