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In her series Land without Parents, Andrea Diefenbach describes the living situation of migrant workers from the Republic of Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe. Her photographs almost painfully illustrate the distance between two spatially separated worlds: that of the children left behind at home and that of the parents far away.
“Standing in the first grade of a school in a small village in southeastern Moldova in April 2008, where the teacher asked, ‘Whose parents live in Italy?” and about two-thirds of the children pointed with a mixture of pride and embarrassment, I was startled. It’s a completely different thing to read all the statistics about migrant workers and remittances than it is to read about them in a These children often haven’t seen their parents in years….