The sign is placed on a grate that should prevent access to the immense abandoned area of Silos.
Trieste, Italy 2017
An extract from article “Perpetually temporary shelter in Trieste” on Forced Migration Review (FMR)
“An old building that has seen displaced people in it many times over many years is being used by the latest group of arrivals, this time from outside Europe.”
“This perpetually temporary presence seems to be tolerated well by the local residents, maybe partly because of the high walls of the building that protect it and render it invisible. This shelter was not officially established but rather chosen and occupied by the migrants themselves, almost as if they recognised the historical function of Silos. Today, as in the past, it serves as a protective and collective space, and also as a buffer zone between order and disorder, visibility and invisibility, hospitality and rejection.”
— by Roberta Altin [Anthropologist Researcher, Centre for Migration, Cooperation and Sustainable Development , Department of Humanities, University of Trieste]
http://www.fmreview.org/