Adriana Thomasa

Documentary photographer and photojournalist
 
Cross-border lives
Location: Valparaiso, Chile
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Adriana Thomasa (1994, Melilla, Spain) Documentary photographer and photojournalist based between Chile and Spain. Her work explores and focuses in social issues related with identity and territory, migration, social movements and environment.
Private Story
Cross-border lives
Copyright Adriana Thomasa 2024
Updated Jun 2022
Topics Borders, Journalism, Melilla, Migration, Morocco, Pandemics, People, Photography, Photojournalism, Workers, Workers Rights
Summary
In May 2022, the land borders between Spain and Morocco were reopened, after two years closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic and the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
Vidas transfronterizas (2022)

En mayo de 2022, se llevó a cabo la reapertura de fronteras terrestres entre España y Marruecos, después de dos años cerradas por la pandemia de COVID 19 y la crisis diplomática entre ambos países. Durante este tiempo, muchos trabajadores transfronterizos marroquíes se quedaron atrapados a ambos lados de la frontera. Algunos en Marruecos junto a sus familias, pero sin poder cruzar la frontera para trabajar, y otros en Melilla, trabajando, pero sin poder regresar a sus hogares al otro lado de la frontera. Tras la reapertura, la localidad fronteriza de Barrio Chino (Marruecos) al otro lado de la valla, cuyo paso sigue cerrado y cuyos habitantes trabajaban en Melilla, apenas siente la diferencia. Farida, una trabajadora del hogar residente en Barrio Chino, que trabajaba en Melilla, ha sido una de las muchas trabajadoras transfronterizas afectadas por el cierre de fronteras. Lleva dos años sin trabajar y ahora debe solicitar un visado para volver a trabajar en Melilla. 

Cobertura para EL PAÍS.
Cross-border lives (2022)

In May 2022, the land borders between Spain and Morocco were reopened, after two years closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic and the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. After the reopening of Spanish-Moroccan land borders, the border town of Barrio Chino (Morocco) on the other side of the fence, whose passage is still closed and whose inhabitants used to work in Melilla, hardly feels the difference. Farida, a domestic worker from Barrio Chino,  who used to work in Melilla, has been one of the many cross-border workers affected by the border closure. She has been out of work for two years and now she must apply for a visa to return to work in Melilla.

On assignment for EL PAÍS.
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