Synopsis
"Agadez, in northern Niger, has long been a key hub for migration from the Sahel to northwest Africa and on to Europe. Nomadic Tuareg tribes made their living taking migrants across the Sahara, creating a lucrative but unregulated migration economy.
The EU, keen to stabilise the region and with a view to establishing its own border surveillance to regulate migration, incited Niger to pass a law banning the transport of people who don’t have a work visa. In just 5 years, this intervention has disrupted the economy, bringing unemployment, crime and chaos.
The film bears witness to the effects of ill-considered political intervention through the eyes of three Agadez residents who question the interventions that changed their daily reality and had profound personal and social consequences."
The EU, keen to stabilise the region and with a view to establishing its own border surveillance to regulate migration, incited Niger to pass a law banning the transport of people who don’t have a work visa. In just 5 years, this intervention has disrupted the economy, bringing unemployment, crime and chaos.
The film bears witness to the effects of ill-considered political intervention through the eyes of three Agadez residents who question the interventions that changed their daily reality and had profound personal and social consequences."
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