Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Waiting for work in Madrid after Canaries odyssey
What happens to the more than 18,000 mainly male immigrants that have reached the Canaries by boat? After 40 days they are they are eventually transferred to the Spanish mainland and left to their own devices, armed only with an unenforceable document providing for their expulsion.
Michaela Cancela-Kieffer reports, "Like thousands of others this year, Mamadou Diallo quit a bleak existence in Africa for Spain's Canary Islands, in his case reaching Tenerife in May after ten perilous days spent at sea after leaving his native Senegal. Three months on, it's a dawn start for Mamadou as he waits for a fleet of vans who trawl Madrid in the early morning on the lookout for cheap immigrant labour."
Waiting for work in Madrid after Canaries odyssey
Michaela Cancela-Kieffer reports, "Like thousands of others this year, Mamadou Diallo quit a bleak existence in Africa for Spain's Canary Islands, in his case reaching Tenerife in May after ten perilous days spent at sea after leaving his native Senegal. Three months on, it's a dawn start for Mamadou as he waits for a fleet of vans who trawl Madrid in the early morning on the lookout for cheap immigrant labour."
Waiting for work in Madrid after Canaries odyssey
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