- Occupation
Director - Country
Hungary
Barsony Katalin
Uprooted - Children's Perspectives on Europe's Repatriation Policies
In October 2010, the chancellor Angela Merkel claimed that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had "utterly failed". From the perspective of children like Anita, Sedat and Nasmija, born and raised in Germany by parents who had fled the war-torn Kosovo at the beginning of the 1990's, the statement makes no sense. For them, there is no question about their nationality: they are German. Fifteen months ago, Sedat and Nasmija were deported from Germany. They are now bound to bear the inhuman conditions of a refugee camp in Kosovo...
In October 2010, the chancellor Angela Merkel claimed that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had "utterly failed". From the perspective of children like Anita, Sedat and Nasmija, born and raised in Germany by parents who had fled the war-torn Kosovo at the beginning of the 1990's, the statement makes no sense. For them, there is no question about their nationality: they are German. Fifteen months ago, Sedat and Nasmija were deported from Germany. They are now bound to bear the inhuman conditions of a refugee camp in Kosovo...
Katalin Barsony is a sociologist, film maker and project manager at the Budapest-based Roma NGO Romedia Foundation. With her mixed Roma-Jewish background, she has used her deep understanding of minority issues and her expertise in sociology to create the first-ever documentary series on Roma communities around the world to be broadcast on a mainstream television channel, Mundi Romani – the World through Roma Eyes.