Rabat, July 2006. For more than a week refugees and asylum seekers demonstrated outside the UNHCR office in Rabat ghost. About thirty people, including women and children, sitting on the sidewalk of the Avenue de Fes. They sleep, eat and talk. Signs hung on walls and doors of the building denounced the poor living conditions of refugees and asylum seekers in Morocco. Not recognized, without any right, marginalized by a society that rejects them explicitly.
UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in response to that event he is "still" closed, although you can glimpse the officials inside.
With no home, chased from the church where they had tried to escape, imprisoned in a country that does not want them, men and women show their exasperation and request that it be given the opportunity to emigrate to a place where they can resume a normal life, as in Morocco, it seems, is legally impossible.
speak with the spokesman of the movement, we nervously explain how frustrating it is their condition total indifference with which they have accepted their requests.
In Morocco, a country of emigration, the question of "African", as it often is referred to the problems relating to migration flows from Africa subshariana, is taboo.
E’ paradossale pensare a questo grande circolo vizioso: in Italia il “marocchino” rappresenta l’immigrato per eccellenza, il diverso, temibile perché porta con sé lo sguardo dell’altro, della povertà, della criminalità e della miseria. Qui, la storia si ripete, i ruoli sono gli stessi, cambiano gli interpreti. Ed è facile sentire commenti che esprimono riluttanza verso coloro che giungono in questa terra nordafricana in cerca di rifugio e di una vita migliore...
