TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Portraits of Absence

LIII Rayyan, 22 years old, Ghat, Algeria

The name was written at the start of a new line but better misunderstood than handcuffed and on the way home. I am a legal man he said explaining the paperwork, I am a named body and only written down have I value: to be called what man is, with the name of his blood even if the permission to rest

on paper or on marble is obtained, and must be enough.

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