other europe
Director rossella schillaci
Countries Italy
Duration 75 min
Synopsis
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? Which challenges they will need to face and what are their prospects for a decent livelihood in IT? In Turin, a northern it industrial city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. All of whom are legal. Set between a cinema and a street market in a working-class neighborhood, this 5-story building is now inhabited by so and Sudanese refugees, forming a small African island in the heart of a European city, yet isolated from the rest of the world. There is running water in one room per floor for 80 persons on each floor; there is electricity but no heating.
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? Which challenges they will need to face and what are their prospects for a decent livelihood in IT? In Turin, a northern it industrial city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. All of whom are legal. Set between a cinema and a street market in a working-class neighborhood, this 5-story building is now inhabited by so and Sudanese refugees, forming a small African island in the heart of a European city, yet isolated from the rest of the world. There is running water in one room per floor for 80 persons on each floor; there is electricity but no heating.