Elisabeth Ida Mulyani – Inside Embassies

“Perhaps it can be somewhat of a consolation to know that behind the secured doors things are not always much better. For when the general public does enter an embassy, it usually is to spend many hours in the consular section, waiting for one’s number to come up on the screen to present one’s visa application or start some other administrative procedure. Elisabeth Ida thus shows us the normality of the embassy: daily life on both sides of the gateway goes on in pretty much the same way.” — Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Ghent University & Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations (Brussels)