Today is online the first section of the interactive website http://acrossthesea.net/, output of media documentation on migrants routes, carried out by Servizio Civile Internazionale, Amisnet, Active Vision, Geminaire Group, APDHA.
The website is the main outcome of the project Across the Sea, aimed at mapping immigrants' routes among Mediterranean shores. Following their tracks implies narrating stories, but also countering prejudices, producing alternative narratives on the migratory phenomena.
Migration in the Mediterranean is still perceived as an issue to deal with violent security measures: the only answers government offer, even before tragedies as the one of October 2013 next to Lampedusa island. That episode was represented by media as a tragic fatality instead of the consequence of precise political choices. The event caused even further militarization of the area, through the “Mare Nostrum” army operation.
Across the sea is a small tool to invert this trend, to understand, through video, audio and narrations what migrants have experienced once they approach our shores.
The project can be used freely to inform and to fight for the respect of international conventions on human rights for everyone who moves across the Euro-mediteranean space.
Across the sea is a small contribution towards a more inclusive society where freedom of movement is guaranteed and where Mediterranean is conceived as an open door where melting different cultures and not as a barrier to control.
From the 19th of March the website will be updated every week with a new contribution, video or audio, up to the presentation of the full documentation, on June, in Rome.
Once finalized, the website wants to be a dynamic tool, that can be enriched with contributions of everybody who works to monitor borders and migration routes through Mediterranean and towards Europe.
We will need the contribution of everybody to create an updated archive that might be a tool to understand changes on the ground and a source of information useful to contrast policies of exclusion and death in the Mediterranean.
For further information:
acrossthesea.net@gmail.com
coordinamento@sci-italia.it
Tel. +39065580664
Across the Sea is a project co-funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation
Bron :
Anybody from this list involved in this project?
Best,
hagen