ABSTRACT
In 1990, the British director David Wheatley and the writer William Nicholson produced, for the international campaign ‘One World’, a fictional movie centred on mass migration from Africa to Europe. The movie, entitled ‘The March’, was about hundreds of people fleeing hunger, poverty, and war in the Darfur region (which is more than a historical coincidence). They marched across the Sahara to the Strait of Gibraltar and on their way their numbers multiplied to hundreds of thousands. Not surprisingly, this mass threatened Europe. Once they crossed the Strait, they were observed by an international media and received by a hastily created but well armed European force. Consequentially, the Africans remained trapped in the dead end of a tourist beach. Europe, it was stated in the movie, was not yet ready for the immigrants and did not want to ‘watch them die’. 1
