Arrests and deportations of rejected asylum seekers takes place in a kind of twilight zone outside the public eye. Stop Deportations is the name of an asylum actitivist group that concretely tries to obstruct deportations in airports and make them visible. The following considers this [Full story >>]
Jan 082012
the painting was made by a 9 year old girl who was enrolled in RCT in 1993 Danish legislation complicates traumatised refugees’ attempts to obtain asylum and residence permits. Researcher Edith Montgomery has published a report that reveals the problems in a system that does [Full story >>]
A report about obstacles to deportation in Denmark by Michala Clante Bendixen, Refugees Welcome. Introduction by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen The report ”Asylum camp limbo” concerns the group of rejected asylum seekers in Denmark who cannot be deported to their country of origin for different reasons. The [Full story >>]
Nov 052011
by Snorri Páll Jónsson Úlfhildarson, No Borders Reykjavik. First published in The Reykjavík Grapevine 30.5.2011. Words are weapons. Controlling language—the meaning of words, which words exist and which do not—is the ruling powers’ fundamental premise to keep society stagnant or sway it toward their ideological direction. [Full story >>]
Sep 232011
More and more children are left in the care of relatives, friends, or professionals when their mom cross borders to seek places where there are more jobs to find and where the salaries are higher. As the migration streams of the world are feminized, more [Full story >>]
Sep 232011
Every woman has the right to be treated in a dignified way and for her gender to be taken into consideration when her asylum case is being dealt with, says UK asylum organizations. But only eight countries in the world have guidelines to protect the [Full story >>]
by Saskia Sassen Cities are one of the key sites where new norms and new identities are made. Cities have played this role at various times and in various places, and under very diverse conditions. Yet this role can become strategic in particular times and [Full story >>]
Sep 232011
By Patrick Identification is an inherent tendency in the nature of human being. When Homo sapiens ceased to be controlled only by gastric reflexes, and began to engage in mental activities (somewhere between Australopithecus and Neanderthalensis), they began to realize that the world is [Full story >>]
by Sabine Hess Translated from German ‘City is Migration’. With these plain and simple words, the urban scholar Erol Yildiriz demonstrates the structural interrelation between both of these social phenomena. Hereby he intervenes into a contemporary and historical urban research approach that never even broaches [Full story >>]
