A trip to Romania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxuUC9DZXy8
Video clip about UK's reticence and fear of Romanian
immigrant workers after joining the EU.
Fortress Europe
Yugoslavia 2001, see: Transitmigration.org/homearchiv.html;
People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and "European" rules. Starting from reality, the director reconstructed some stories and chose the cast both among people who experienced them and fledgling actors. They reconstruct these stories, and perhaps fake them, through the answers they give to the (Hungarian, Slovenian, Italian and Croatian) custom officers and to the author's questions.
Human Trafficking
USA, 2005, Director: Christian Duguay
Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traffic. When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) struggles to expose the worldwide network that has enslaved them.
Italian immigrant backlash draws Romanian ire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWHkuZdDzKw
Video clip about Romanians living in prehistoric miserable conditions in the outskirts of Rome.
The paper will be blue
Romania , 2006, 95min., Director: Radu Muntean
In December 1989 revolution broke out in Romania. On the 21st, the people, invited to demonstrate in support of the dictator Ceausescu, whose power was weakening in the face of increasingly determined opposition, instead came out to boo him, and the army shot into the crowd. This was the beginning of the Bucharest uprising
Human Rights Documents on Refugees and Migrants: An Overview
Zelinka, E.: Contemporary trafficking of women, 2007
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005
Human Rights Conventions Overview
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of 1994
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948