“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…
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My life’s place
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…
The role of the parliamentary left in facing the EU’s racist policies
BY NAZANIN SEPHERI AND JON SEBASTIAN RODRIGUEZ FORREST • 2018 The current migration agenda dominating mainstream political discourse in the EU is racist and led by the extreme right. When the European Parliament’s present term started in 2014, it was only…
Six bullet holes
BY VAHID EVAZZADEH • ILLUSTRATION BY SIMON VÆTH • 2018 She sobs and begs them to give her her son. It’s been two hours now that she has been repeating the same sentence. The young…
Recommendation: Uledsaget
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…
(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…