BRUSSELS - Everywhere people are on the move. In search of a better life. Europe is bursting at the seams with new citizens. The old continent is struggling with the immigration phenomenon; and handling it with amazing ineptitude. The question is not: who is welcome and who is not? The question has to be: how are we to accommodate all these newcomers?

The frontiers of fort Europe

For a year and a day this subject has occupied the minds of writer Michael De Cock and photographer Stephan Vanfleteren. Frequently together, sometimes on their own, they visited the furthest outposts of Europe – Malta, Slovakia...

They talked to people on the coasts of Africa who were all ready to emigrate, and they followed the fortunes of those venturing from Ostend to London.

Supported
€6,000 allocated on 17/06/2008
ID:
FPD/2008/641
Grant:
Pascal Decroos Fund

Themes

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Stephan Vanfleteren

Publication

PRINT (in Dutch)

  • A series of articles published in the Belgian weekly Knack (19/11/2008 & 26/11/2008)

BOOK (in Dutch)

  • Title: Aller/Retour
    Subtitle: Reis langs de grenzen van fort Europa
    Authors: Michael De Cock & Stephan Vanfleteren
    Publisher: Meulenhoff/Manteau
    ISBN: 9789085421719
    Published: 10/06/2010

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