Algeria Morocco
“Bianca Senatore travelled to document the western stretch of the African migration route, moving between the Algerian-Moroccan desert border and the cities of Oujda and Nador on the Moroccan coast. In the desert, she photographed Sub-Saharan migrants making the gruelling overland journey toward Morocco, while in the refugee camp in Oujda she gathered testimonies from those who had survived it. In Nador, a port city a short distance from the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Senatore documented the heavily fortified triple-layer fence topped with razor wire that stands as the final barrier between Africa and European soil.“
- In the desert along the Morocco–Algeria border, migrants are photographed as they attempt to make the journey toward Morocco.
- In the desert along the Morocco–Algeria border, migrants are photographed as they attempt to make the journey toward Morocco.
- In a refugee camp in Oujda, a Sub-Saharan migrant woman named Aminata sits with her child, having arrived from Guinea-Bissau after traveling north by various means including car, foot, and bus; during the journey she was raped twice, became pregnant, and her nine-month-old child is the result of that violence.
- In a refugee camp in Oujda, a Sub-Saharan migrant woman named Aminata sits with her child, having arrived from Guinea-Bissau after traveling north by various means including car, foot, and bus; during the journey she was raped twice, became pregnant, and her nine-month-old child is the result of that violence.
- David, a Sub-Saharan migrant in the refugee camp in Oujda.
- A woman in a pink hoodie named Zalika, from Mali, tells her story to Bianca Senatore. Zalika had been tortured 9 times in 40 degree heat while covered in winter clothing during her route north across Africa. Moroccan volunteers in the Oujda refugee camp where this picture was taken took her to hospital as she was under shock from trauma.
- The Nador fence is a heavily fortified, triple-layer barrier topped with razor wire, separating Morocco from Melilla, a Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast.
- Bianca Senatore in the car travelling along the Nador fence, a heavily fortified triple-layer barrier topped with razor wire, separating Morocco from Melilla, a Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast.
- In the desert along the Morocco–Algeria border, migrants are photographed as they attempt to make the journey toward Morocco.
- In the desert along the Morocco–Algeria border, migrants are photographed as they attempt to make the journey toward Morocco.
- The Nador fence is a heavily fortified, triple-layer barrier topped with razor wire, separating Morocco from Melilla, a Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast.
- The Nador fence is a heavily fortified, triple-layer barrier topped with razor wire, separating Morocco from Melilla, a Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast.
- In the desert along the Morocco–Algeria border, migrants are photographed as they attempt to make the journey toward Morocco.
- In the desert along the Morocco–Algeria border, migrants are photographed as they attempt to make the journey toward Morocco.
- Oluwa and David recount their difficult journey from South Sudan, telling Bianca Senatore that some of the men who traveled with them were killed by smugglers or militias, while others were abandoned in the desert.
Photos: Bianca Senatore
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