ROSALUX_Migration Documentary (Stateless)
Channel: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung East Africa
Date: 2019-07-05

In December 2017, the Israel parliament – the Knesset - passed a controversial law to forcefully deport about 38,000 illegal African migrants, about 95% per cent of whom were of Eritrean and Sudanese origin. The majority of these migrants fled their countries to Israel between 2006 and 2012, due to different reasons including war and threats to their human rights by their ruling governments. 

This documentary film, Stateless, traces and investigates the migrants’ journeys to Israel, the dilemma around their legal status and their struggles for survival in Israel, the Israel government’s attempts to forcefully deport them to other African countries, and their struggle alongside  actions taken by opposition parliamentarians and other human rights defenders to block the government’s unjust deportation schemes.

The documentary has been financially and logistically supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung offices of Tanzania and Israel. The views therein however do not necessarily represent those of the two offices.