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African Exodus
Since 2006, 60,000 non-Jewish Africans, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, have fled the wars and dictatorships of their home countries and made their way through Egypt and the Sinai desert into Israel, the Jewish homeland. These Africans, mostly refugees and asylum seekers, have risked their lives in the hope of f...
Since 2006, 60,000 non-Jewish Africans, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, have fled the wars and dictatorships of their home countries and made their way through Egypt and the Sinai desert into Israel, the Jewish homeland. These Africans, mostly refugees and asylum seekers, have risked their lives in the hope of finding a safe haven until they can return home.
Paradoxically, they are considered “infiltrators” in a country that was founded by...
Since 2006, 60,000 non-Jewish Africans, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, have fled the wars and dictatorships of their home countries and made their way through Egypt and the Sinai desert into Israel, the Jewish homeland. These Africans, mostly refugees and asylum seekers, have risked their lives in the hope of finding a safe haven until they can return home.
Paradoxically, they are considered “infiltrators” in a country that was founded by and for refugees – Jewish refugees – but is unprepared and seemingly unwilling to handle this wave of Africans. While Israel has a very clear policy for absorbing Jews and is a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has struggled to deal with its newest migrant community. Recognizing that it cannot send the Africans back to their home countries, the government of Israel keeps them in limbo, not allowing them to work legally. With the numbers of homeless, jobless Africans on the rise, tensions are growing in the poor neighborhoods where they’ve settled.
The African migrants have become a major political issue for Israel, with anti-migrant laws and politicians threaten to expel and imprison innocent men, women and children. While the State gropes for an adequate solution to this looming humanitarian crisis, Israel’s civil society has stepped into the breach and is invoking Jewish and human values to help the Africans most in need. Exodus, a documentary film, chronicles this issue and sheds light on the largely hidden world of Israel’s African refugees.
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In 1962, in the French Antilles, the people descending from the slave trade were still facing serious poverty. They started to demand a better situation. And at the same time, the French metropolis was lacking unqualified working force... The « Bumidom » was created to solve both problems. For 20 years, this org...
In 1962, in the French Antilles, the people descending from the slave trade were still facing serious poverty. They started to demand a better situation. And at the same time, the French metropolis was lacking unqualified working force... The « Bumidom » was created to solve both problems. For 20 years, this organism encouraged the young French Antilles people to come to the continent. It promised them a better future thanks to jobs like postma...
In 1962, in the French Antilles, the people descending from the slave trade were still facing serious poverty. They started to demand a better situation. And at the same time, the French metropolis was lacking unqualified working force... The « Bumidom » was created to solve both problems. For 20 years, this organism encouraged the young French Antilles people to come to the continent. It promised them a better future thanks to jobs like postman, cleaning lady, subway worker, etc. It also promised them a boat ticket, but a one-way ticket.
1962. Les guerres de décolonisation se terminent. Dans les Antilles françaises, les populations issues de la traite d’esclaves, toujours livrées à la plus grande pauvreté, commencent à revendiquer une situation meilleure. Et la métropole manque de main d’œuvre non qualifiée... Le Bumidom est créé pour résoudre ces deux problèmes: pendant vingt ans, cet organisme va pousser les jeunes Antillais à venir travailler sur le continent, leur promettant un avenir radieux, de postier, de femme de ménage, d’agent RATP, et un billet de bateau... Un aller simple.L’avenir est ailleurs retrace l’histoire de cette "nouvelle traite" à travers les témoignages de ceux qui l’ont combattue, et de ceux qui sont partis, de ces familles déracinées qui ont difficilement tenté de reconstruire leur identité de "Français noirs".
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