THE ROLE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN MONITORING THE PHENOMENON OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Abstract

On the monitoring of the phenomenon of illegal immigration and how it began and expanded at the level of several countries, and accordingly the research is divided into two parts: The first part: an information narration about the concept of illegal immigration, its emergence, the concept of informal migration and its problems - international conventions - recent international conferences on migration and migrants - Statistics on the number of illegal immigrants around the world - recent photos of different types of immigrants - and mass migrations. The poor sanitary status of migrants. The second part: an artistic narration of a type of artists who stopped at this phenomenon, and produced various works. The product, where some artists previously issued artworks inspired by events as an artistic repelling wall, may illuminate, or it may shed light or may prevent in the future some danger to humanity, such as accompanying The phenomenon is human trafficking. Artists ’works depended on not separating between art and politics. On the contrary, political matters became a new platform from which the gatherings advocating for human rights and advocacy for environmental protection emerged. Politics was considered a new platform in which artists take a purely artistic documentary, but is influenced by events and opinions surrounding the world in general, and countries in particular.

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