BY VIBEKE NIELSEN • 2018 Uledsaget (Unaccompanied) is a comic book anthology about taking flight, and about life as an unaccompanied young refugee in Denmark. The anthology is the outcome of a collaboration between unaccompanied…
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(Up)rooted, in the absence of men
BY LISELOT KATTEMÖLLE • ILLUSTRATIONS BY FATIMA MOALLIM FROM FLYKTINGLANDET, FLYKTINGLANDET.TUMBLR.COM “A woman is like a flower and a man is like her roots.” Aisha unfolds her hands and moves a little forward towards the…
Causes of blindness
BY LILLTREZ, AMARA AND AUGUSTINE • ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIGRID ASTRUP The authors were participants in Free Home University’s two-week residency, Performing the Struggle, at Ammirato Culture House in Lecce, Italy. At the end of the…
في انتظار اللجوء • Waiting for asylum
بقلم ريم زقزوق • BY REEM ZAKZOUK المستحيل The impossible بين الصخر والجدار between the rock and the wall يوجد شق فيه مسمار there is a nail in a crack أعلق عليه ندفاً من…
Ziba’s story
This is the story of my mother, Ziba, and our family’s struggle to be reunited. BY SOLMAZ FARNIAN HAMADANI • ILLUSTRATION BY MARIE BOYE THOMSEN In 2009 I was allowed to send an invitation to…
Editorial #13
visAvis #13 is out now! Pick up a printed copy somewhere in Copenhagen. The rest of the magazine will be published online during the next months. BY VISAVIS • PHOTOS BY PAULA DUVÅ • 2018…
Stories told and untold: Anglophone Cameroonians at flight in Nigeria
While most have heard about Nigerians fleeing Boko Haram, to Cameroon among other places, fewer know that refugees also cross the border in the opposite direction. In October 2017, an English-speaking minority in Cameroon declared…
Seven deadly sins: The blueprints for a Common European Asylum System
It is becoming increasingly dangerous and difficult to reach Europe in search of protection. This development is a consequence of the aggressive migration policies established by the EU and its member states. The externalization of…
The Migrating Image: Imaging refugee and migrant trajectories to Europe
Stefan Kruse Jørgensen’s short film The Migrating Image is an investigation of images produced during the so-called European refugee crisis in 2015. It is on view through 6 May as part of Africa: Rethinking Architecture…
Sahrawi activists at the border of their own country
“Home for many people is something tangible; home for us is a dream. Home for you is a reality; home for me is a wish. Home for you is existence; home for me is a…