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Can a travel guide for illegal immigrants be a work of art?

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Can a travel guide for illegal immigrants be a work of art?

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The trick to getting into the guarded harbour area at Le Havre, explains Matei Bejenaru in his Travelling Guide, is to buy a set of overalls, a construction worker’s helmet and the harbour newspaper. The former allow you to pose as a harbour worker, and the latter details ship departures. “Dressed like this, you can enter the Quai d’Atlantique without any problems through one of the access gates after the lunch break, when you can intermingle with the other workers,” states the 18-page colour booklet. Travelling Guide is written in the style of a guide-book, but is not intended for affluent Western tourists. It is a piece of controversial art which aims to “subvert the language and purpose of the format”, speaking directly to Romanian travellers and illegal immigrant workers, helping them through border controls, ports and stations into Western Europe. It contains instructions on acquiring forged identity papers, fake UK national insurance numbers, includes a bar chart grading the risk

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