Migrants Rocky Reception

Details: Published on Tuesday, 04 October 2016 23:00; Written by editor

“This is not the Europe I was dreaming of.”

Those words, spoken by an Ethiopian migrant who recently arrived in Italy, sum up the dysfunction and chaos endemic to the country’s migrant reception system.

Welcome to Italy, a series of short films, delves into this system and uncovers a patchwork of makeshift shelters, organized crime, and official misconduct.

Watch the films and learn more about the problems plaguing Europe’s migrant reception centers.