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The anti-immigrant generation gap is widest in France, where more than half (53%) of those ages 65 and older completely agree that immigration should be restricted. Only a quarter (24%) of younger French men and women shared such strong views.
Support for greater immigration controls also is widespread in Africa, Asia and Latin America, without the generational differences seen in Europe and the United States.
Elizabeta from Nigeria beneath the western sky
Melania Messina
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"I mainly feel like a foreigner. I am a foreigner among Italians, but I am also a foreigner among my own people."

I have been amazed by immigrant women’s extraordinary energy and will to live despite the difficulties of their conditions. I choose to photograph only women because it seems to me that they have the most responsibility to integrate into the community and the most difficulty doing so. They take care of the children and their education, while trying to preserve the customs and values of their original culture. They often have to break with some of their traditions and start working, sometimes being the only source of income for the entire family. While I was photographing women for my exhibit, I was also interviewing them, and somehow it seemed to me that the portraits needed some fragments of their conversation to be complete. For the exhibit, each image had fragments of their interview as captions.
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