Bolzano
An increasing number of migrants, trying to cross the border of Brennero, is forced to live under bridges or in informal facilities in open air.
10.000 invisible lives throughout Italy
As stated by Medici Senza Frontiere, due to current integration policies there are more then 10.000 people between refugees and asylum seekers in Italy who remain left out from the reception system, without a formal settlement, healthcare or social assistence.
From north to south Italy immigrant occupy abandoned places, can they be buildings, farmhouses, shacks or open air places. Most of the time they are without electricity or water, under bad health conditions. For informal settlement we mean, according to Medici senza frontiere, a population composed of refugees excluded from governative welcoming systems, that has to be of non-seasonal type and self- organized. Everybody knows the refugee camp, where they are placed. They have a precise location, they are from a legislative point of view “places”. An informal settlement is a non-place because it legally doesn’t exist and the people that live there are “invisible”. Of course they occupy a geographical place, and also most of them work, but they still remain invisible because they juridically are not present. One of the purposes of this project is to try to give them a geographical existence, maps playing an important role in our virtual exhibition. Hidden Italy is an existing country composed by people that live and work, maybe also in our same city.
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