The Rohingya from Myanmar (Burma) have endured decades of human rights abuse. Intolerance, exclusion, deprivation and authoritarian control from the government and military over almost every aspect of daily life have paralyzed the Rohingya community, while racism, ethnic and religious extremism from the local Buddhist Rakhine community have perpetuated their plight. Over the course of 9 years (2006-2015), I made 12 trips to Burma and Bangladesh to photograph and document the plight of the stateless Rohingya for the long-term project Nowhere People. This short film features unreleased video and audio recordings I collected over the course of those nine years. It hopefully presents a view of how their situation continues to worsen and how little has been accomplished by those inside Burma and internationally to end the ongoing destruction of this community.
A short multimedia film about the impact detention has on stateless people throughout Europe. The film is part of Greg Constantine's project Nowhere People and was made in collaboration with member organizations of the International Detention Coalition and the European Network on Statelessness. www.nowherepeople.org
In Europe, statelessness occurs both among recent migrants and among people who have lived in the same place for generations. Despite the scale of the problem, most European countries have no framework to effectively deal with statelessness and tackling this requires major law and policy reform.
Nubians have lived in Kenya for over 100 years, yet they have been historically denied recognition. Originally from Sudan, they were conscripted into the British Army in the 1880s and fought for the British in WWI and WWII. Unable to return to Sudan, the British designated 4197 acres of land for the Nubians to settle on in Kenya. The Nubians named the land Kibra or 'land of forest'.
After independence, Nubians were not recognized as citizens of Kenya and all of their claims to the land given to them by the British have been denied. Over the past 40 years, the small Nubian village of Kibra has transformed into Kibera, the largest slum in Africa.
This multimedia feature incorporates rare historical photographs of the Nubian community dating back to 1912 with Constantine's own work.