Within the Union of Cleaners, he also worked with and for the Migrant Domestic Workers, a group of cleaners without contracts,
working in the grey and black areas of the Dutch economy. One of the results of this particular collaboration is the black and white video
NO WORK NO PAY!
In this shadow play, the Domestic Workers perform as silhouettes, telling stories about their daily routines and fears.
The video was part of the campaign for the regularization of domestic work in the Netherlands and against the criminalization
of undocumented workers.
TAKE A RISK AND EXPLORE: THE VISUALISATION OF THE DUTCH CLEANERS' MOVEMENT
is an article published in the magazine Yes&No, describes De Bruijne's collaboration with the Dutch Cleaners Union
and also sketches a few other projects achieved with the workers of this movement.
Alongside this larger collaboration, De Bruijne has also created different projects in the city of Heerlen,
in the south of the Netherlands. This town used to be the vital centre of the coal mining industry,
but the last pits in the area were closed in the seventies, leaving many of its inhabitants without work and goals.
One of the projects he made in this region was the film
HET MUSEUM VAN DE STRAAT
This short film, created with the inhabitants of De Oude Passart, is about the struggle waged in
this shrinking city to preserve a working class neighbourhood and its culture.
During the 2010s, De Bruijne visited Cuba for various projects.
PALABRAS EN CAMBIO
is the result of his last visit to this country and is a publication that links articles of the 1992 Cuban Constitution
with the testimonies of self-employed workers in an economy that was changing fundamentally. The booklet, originally written in Spanish,
is a collaboration with Cecilia Vallejos and Taller Libertario Alfredo López and was intended to contribute to the discussion around
the referendum on the latest reform of the Cuban constitution.
The website
EL HOLANDAMAN
addresses issues of migration, integration, and xenophobia, specifically in what concerns hybrid
models of new social groups like the Dutch Muslims in Argentina. This project, which was set up by De Bruijne in the early
years of this century, features various individual testimonies that question the ensuing struggle to integrate into
the society in which they live.
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