Written by the participants at a series of creative writing workshops which took place in the Trampoline House during Spring 2016. Collected by Liv Nimand Duvå I live on the border between the I and…
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visAvis #12: Recommendations
John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath Novel, 1939 I would like to share what is in my opinion one of the most significant books on the migration theme: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. This is…
Lucky day
by Liv Nimand Duvå • 2016 I’m standing in a room with my partner at the Swedish Migration Agency. We’re here to hand in our application for a Swedish residence permit, which should then allow…
Keeping warm in cold country
When you exit the metro at Christianshavn in Copenhagen you see a number of statues known as the Greenland Monument. They were made from red granite by the Danish sculptor Svend Rathsack after he had…
No camps wanted or needed!
Vasilika camp is situated outside of Thessaloniki, in the northern part of Greece. As a part of the European system for dehumanising refugees, the camp is strategically located in a remote and deserted landscape, far…
Burning the strait
Can migration and literature be mutually generating ways of escaping reality? Is the paperlessness of undocumented migrants a liberation from constricting identity, or does it rather result in painful identity crises? How is the boat…
The year of the hunger strikes
When people no longer are in power of their own lives, they can resist by mastering their own deaths. In 2012 the hunger strike was deployed as a mode of resistance among migrants in Danish…
Afghan asylum seekers demonstrates in Copenhagen
Report from the Afghan asylum seeker’s demonstration The 10th of November in Copenhagen Speech by Devid Parsa · photo: Paula Nimand Duvå and Katerina Pisackova Welcome ladies and gentlemen, Asalam alekum everyone. We are here today because…
Asylum Camp Limbo – a report about obstacles to deportation
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…
