A MEMORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE

Until I Become Home is a collaborative newspaper publication that focuses on the Balkan refugee route as well as communities and individuals that try to traverse it. The publication looks at the numerous journeys that people on the move make before—if lucky enough—they reach their desired safe haven in Europe. Through various written and visual reflections, it centres on the route as an interruption in the lives of individuals, whose goal to reach countries such as Italy, France, Germany, or Spain and be reconnected with their communities-in-exile presupposes the perilous journeys that they embark on. While attempting to reach Europe, people fleeing war, conflict, poverty, or persecution are often pushed to the fringes, forced to live precariously in refugee camps, abandoned buildings, or improvised shelters in the forest. Their path to safety requires numerous and often deadly attempts to negotiate vast distances on foot, guided by the luminous light of maps on mobile phone screens.