Director Thomas Østbye's documentary "Imagining Emanuel" asks the questions: Who are you without any form of ID? Could you prove the facts of your own life? The Emanuel in the title of the film arrived in Norway in 2003, claiming to be from Liberia without any identification or piece of tangible evidence of who he was. But Norwegian authorities believed he came from Ghana. He was then sent back to where they believed he was from (Ghana), only to be rejected by the Ghanaian authorities and then sent back to Norway. This back-and-forth happened twice. Without the means to do so, refugee claimant Emanuel wasn't able to convince anyone of...
- 10/21/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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