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“There’s Rise or Ruin”: Enri Canaj’s Ongoing Documentation of Italy’s Crisis of Policy on Migration

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Enri Canaj Ibrahim 26 & Mohammed 28 from Ghana. Ibrahim lives since 2016 in Casserta and works in the agriculture sector. What he earns is much lower than the legal minimum under Italian law. South Italy, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Waiting in line for the documents applications. After many years living in Italy a very big number of migrants don't have the residence permit or any other legal paper yet. This is one of the biges (...)
Enri Canaj The Adriatic See is very near from the Hotel House in Porto Recanati. Porto Recanati. Italy. August, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Children playing in The Hotel House. Hotel House is 17 floors high, 480 apartments 32 different nationalities and almost 3,000 residents. Most of them are families. The Hotel House was inaugurated (...)
Enri Canaj ITALY. Porto Recanati. August, 2018. A standing room at Hotel House in Porto Recanati. There are 480 apartments and nobody knows how many people exactly live here. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj ITALY. Porto Recanati. August, 2018. Aisha 30y.o from Senegal sitting on the floor in 60sqm apartment at the Hotel House in Porto Reccanati. She is the mother of 2 children and she has no job. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Varis Ali 66 y.o from Pakistan. He lives at the Hostel House with his 2 sons and their families. ‘’ I work sometimes but not enough to help my family’’. Porto Recanati. Italy. August, 2018. Ita (...)
Enri Canaj Najara 7 years old and Nama 5 years old are playing in front of their fathers shop. Both were born in Italy. Their father is from Senegal and he owns a second hand shop at Hotel House. Porto Recana (...)
Enri Canaj Mustafa 49 years old from Senegal, is working at the reception of the Hotel House in Porto Reccanati, Italy. He lives in Italy since 1993.He told me ‘’ Salvini was here and visit the Hotel House’. (...)
Enri Canaj ITALY. Porto Recanati. August, 2018. Enzo, 75 years old lives on the 14th floor at the Hotel House in Porto Reccanati. ‘’There are 285 stairs each time. Imagine if one day I forget something and I (...)
Enri Canaj ITALY. Porto Recanati. August, 2018. The Adriatic See is very near from the Hotel House in Porto Recanati. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Two women walkig through the parking place in front of Hotel House in Porto Recanati. The majority of the residents of Hotel House are Senegalese, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Tunisian. Porto Recanat (...)
Enri Canaj Some floors of Hotel House are covered by cigarette butts, cotton buds and empty bottles. Porto Recanati. Italy. August, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Falkster 14 years old with his sister Amnalk 13 years old during the lunch. The family lives at Hotel House since 1 year and since 6 years in Italy. Porto Recanati. Italy. August, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Hotel House is 17 floors high, 480 apartments 32 different nationalities and almost 3,000 residents. Most of them are families. Porto Recanati. Italy. August, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Suman, 15 years old, from Gambia, walking with his dog Jonick on the way back to the CARA refugee camp at Borgo Mezzanone. South Italy, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj The way to achieve the fields near Borgo Mezzanone. Migrants are using bicycles to go to the fields which are sometimes 2 hours far away from the ”Runway Ghetto”, where the live. South Italy, 2018. (...)
Enri Canaj Lo Mamadane 57 years old, from Senegal. He lives since 40 years in Italy, and the last 12 years at Hotel House. He is not working because of an operation. I can’t work any more because of an heart (...)
Enri Canaj Dasmouen from Ghana, working as a butcher at the migrant camp known as the "Runway Ghetto”, near to Borgo Mezzanone, Italy. South Italy, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Migrants working on the fields collecting asparagus. Often they work under a gangmaster, with no employment contract, long hours and earning far below the minimum wage. The gangmasters charge them (...)
Enri Canaj A Nigerian women holding her 2 months years old son who was born in Italy. South Italy, 2018. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj Borgo Mezzanone is a fraction of Manfredonia, in the province of Foggia. On a former Nato area, in 2005 the largest CARA in Italy was built after the one in Mineo. The official capacity is 636 peop (...)