EUROPE - MISSION AND EMIGRATION - “A Suitcase with String”: if you want to join the army of emigrants you will probably have to pay money! A lot of money! Your debt will be infinite, like the hope in every human heart...

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - If you want to join the army of emigrants you will probably have to pay money! A of lot money! Your debt will be infinite, like the sweetest hopes in every human heart. Give lots of money! And you man or woman reduced to a suitcase will be allowed to carry in your heart one dream, just one! But the greater your dream the more reality will be different. We all know! Dreaming is expensive. And so you find an “Agency” ready to lend you money to reach your dream. Blessed “Agency”. Cursed dream which now has me an illegal immigrant in chains. A shadow which made me a prostitute, a slave for any sort of work, a shadow with curved spine, obedient, 10, 12 hours a day. Time to dream? Not even that anymore. I am robbed even of the false promise that I can pay back and gain my freedom. What was at home from where I fled, is now only a memory. Land of bloodshed. Nothing has changed. Here too, only the strong survive. (Luca De Mata) ((Luca De Mata) (television programme trailer “La valigia con lo spago”: a series of 4 programmes: an investigation into migratory flows and new slavery in the world: Rai Uno beginning 29 June, 2nd evening feature). (Agenzia Fides 24/6/2009; righe 14, parole 223)