Director: Esra Ersen, Turkey 2003, 23 min., Multilingual with English subtitels
As in previous works, Esra Ersen becomes part of a group in Brothers and Sisters. For six months, she accompanies a number of illegal immigrants from Africa and becomes acquainted with their world, describing their cultural milieu and restricted social environment in her video. Ersen draws the viewer’s attention to the cultural and social conflicts between the immigrants and the Muslim inhabitants of Istanbul.
Director: Ebru Karaca, Germany/Turkey 2004, 18 min.
Short feature film about a hotel in Istanbul where "illegal" migrants were detained by the police.
Director: Aysun Bademsoy, Germany 2005, 83 min.
"Deutschländer" are Turkish people, which removed back to Turkey after decades in Germany. For many of them their assumed home dismantles as strange: Insular from the environment, they live in apartment- complexes in the outskirts like all-inclusive-tourists. The German-Turkish filmmaker Aysun Bademsoy explores the living-conditions in this colonies and creates a film diary. The results of the research show a video-installation and a documentary movie in the end.
Director: Berke Bas, Turkey 2004, 40 min.
In Transit is a 40-minute digital video documentary about transnational migration focusing on the Istanbul step of journey to Europe and North America for many migrants from the Middle East, West Africa and South Asia and chronicling the wait of three migrant families who have tried or are still trying all possible means to travel to a western country.
Director: Tim van Beveren, Germany 1984-1986, 102 min.
Inspired by several real single destinies of in Germany living foreigners and asylum seekers the film tells the story of the young Kurd Jannan, which takes refuge to Germany, to get away from the political persecution in his Turkish homeland.
Director: Fatih Akin, Germany/ Turkey, 2007, 122 min.
Akin's latest movie is about a father and son, and a mother and a daughter; it's also about the gulf and gap between Europe and Turkey, between the West and Islam, between repentance and forgiveness.
Director: Jochen Menzel, Germany 2005, 42 min.
A baker, a beauty-salon owner and a large number of retirees that enjoy
themselves at the Riviera in Turkey - all of them emigrants from Germany who started all over again.
The film, shot in May 2005, reports on the brisk developing German community and an amusing Türkisch-German everyday life. It emphasizes urgent questions on integration and 'parallel societies' turning it all around for German migrants in Turkey.
Director: Gülsün Karamustafa, Turkey 2004, 25 min., Moldovan/Turkish
The film is based on the reality of Moldavian women consumed in rich households in Istanbul which contrasts with their representation in the Turkish media.
Director : Bruno Ulmer, France 2006, 90 min.
A haunting documentary that depicts the portrait of ten young immigrants, accompanied by Bruno Ulmer throughout several months in different European countries. Arriving from Romania, Morocco, Turkey, they were pushed by the hope for a better life. But in longed for Europe they find themselves struggling for bare survival, without documents and working permits, discovering soon that no place is left for illusions. While portraying the intimate, daily struggle to conserve their dignity in a merciless environment, the film reflects the bitter outgrowths of the Schengen agreement and the contradictions of wealthy Europe.
Efe, S.: Turkey and Asylum Issues, 2006
Irvin, A.: Displacement in the Kurdish Regions, 2011
Jarosławski, S.: Human rights of the Kurdish community in Turkey, 2008
Kaya, A.: Age of Securitization, 2011
Kleff H.G.: The Turkish Interior Migration, 2007
Seufert, G.: Turkey’s Romanies, 2006
Toksöz G.: Gendered Experiences of irregular migrant workers, 2011
Human Rights Conventions Overview
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 1994
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, 2000
Human Rights Documents on Refugees and Migrants, 2010
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1956