88 Roshini Kempadoo 89 89 All from the artwork: Arrival: Part 1 (2010) Medium for all prints: Giclée inkjet print Sizes for all prints: 60cm x 33.75cm 05Dossier Guyana. Vive y trabaja en Londres This installation imagines and reflects recent experiences by African women having travelled by boat from North Africa to Spain across the Mediterranean (2005 – 2010). Arrival: Part 1 reflects the ‘irregular’ migratory route taken in cayucos (small boats) from North and central West Africa to the Spanish coastland. Persons surviving the journey tell of unprepared and brutal experiences - of desperation, tragedy, hope and determination. The media coverage of sunbathers looking aghast at men, women and children as survivors of the crossing have become familiar to us living in Europe – disguising a more complex and yet continual story of migration and fantasy – the desire and chance of a better quality of life. This old migratory route across the Mediterranean has become a recurring visualised trope rehearsed by the popular media and politicians. The visual representation of boat people arriving is construed as central to the concerns of European citizenship, economic recession, bankruptcy, and potential threat to national security.