INTERVIEW WITH SAMIR BARAKAT • 22 MAY 2021 Samir has been on hunger strike for four days at the sit-in protest in front of Christiansborg, seat of the Danish Parliament, organized by Syriske Forening i…
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“Today it is Damascus, tomorrow…”: On hunger strike against deportations
Danish Kurdistan
BY SHAHLÂ • ILLUSTRATION BY MARÍA MEIGA • MARCH 2021 Hello, I am Shahlâ from Danish Kurdistan. Ever since I can remember (but also before me), the Kurds have lived on the borders and in deprivation.…
The Pauli number
BY SHAHLÂ • ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY AFRA FEKRI • ILLUSTRATION BY MARÍA MEIGA • MARCH 2021 Greetings to you, dear people and governors. I have a question: do you really want to protect your country? Do…
It is very difficult
BY AN AVNSTRUP RESIDENT • ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY AFRA FEKRI • ILLUSTRATION BY MARÍA MEIGA • MARCH 2021 The circumstances during the asylum seeking period are very difficult. Bearing the heavy and humiliating gaze of the…
Avnstrup on strike: Eight problems and demands
BY WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS • OCTOBER 2020 The residents of Deportation Center Avnstrup joined our voices together to create a list of eight problems and demands that express why we choose to strike and protest the…
Vi, papirløse migranter, herbergslogerende og gadens lejere besætter i dag Pantheon
Fredag den 12. Juni 2019 besatte 700 Sorte Veste Pantheon i Paris. De Sorte Veste er en bevægelse af papirløse migranter, som kæmper for fri bevægelighed og for retten til at blive. Under besættelsen af…
My life’s place
“My life’s place” is a project by Babak Inanlou with photos from the former refugee camp in Calais, France. The photos were taken in the beginning of 2016 before the camp was demolished by French…
Cowboy, get stand
BY JEAN CLAUDE MANGOMBA MBOMBO • 2018 Cowboy, get stand! Cowboy, keep your spirit up! I know that you fled because of inequalities I know that you fled because of war I know that you…
Don’t blame me for not learning Danish – blame the system for not wanting to teach me
BY EDEN • ILLUSTRATION BY YILDIZ ARSLAN • 2018 I believe that learning Danish is very important. That is why, ever since I came to Denmark, I have been looking forward to learning Danish. But when…
Barriers on the road of transformative dialogue: The case of Trampoline House
In this text, Ali Ali takes a critical look at the refugee and migrant community centre Trampoline House and shows how even a visionary project with the best intentions reproduces a power hierarchy with the…