Migreurop | Mustapha's Journey
Encounters at the source of illustrations. Beyond discussions between migrants, activists, and researchers, bonds of affection and friendship sometimes develop, leading to precious insights for understanding processes that seem inconceivable to us.
Map and text by Sarah Bachellerie and Sophie Clair published in the’Atlas of migrants in Europe (2017).
Mustapha's Journey
«We are not refugees, we are human» adds Mustafa as a title, after patiently retracing the steps of his migratory journey during a mapping workshop held in Athens, at City Plaza (a former squat hotel housing over 700 refugees).
This sensitive and personal map becomes a means of expression that speaks volumes about the physical and moral trials overcome and that reveals the migratory experience become daily life, through the prism of emotions and memories: departure, uncertainty about the journeys, fear, difficult living conditions, the occasional impossibility of finding food or care, racism in certain countries... and the relief of having arrived and being able to settle in France, where Mustapha has been since March 2017.
Mustapha benefited from relocation procedures established to distribute asylum applications across the European Union.
Map from: Migreurop (2017), Atlas of Migrants in Europe. Critical Approaches to Migration Policies, Paris, Armand Colin.
The book will be published in English before the end of 2018.
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