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Stranger in Chiasso

Ticinese photographer Jacek Pulawski won the 2009 Swiss Press Award for his coverage of illegal immigrants.

His moving images of refugees turn our attention to a problem becoming ever more noticeable in Switzerland. Over several months, Pulawski documented the hardships of newly-arrived asylum seekers arriving at the Italian-speaking border town of Chiasso from Italy.

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