By Jimmy
Migration and Borders
Refugee Label Obliterates Personal Identity
When an individual is transformed into a ’refugee,’ great personal consequences follow in terms of the way in which the surrounding society regards this individual. Despite very different personalities and backgrounds, individuals are portrayed as…
Roskilde Festival 2012
In the summer of 2012 visAvis went to the Roskilde Festival. We wrote articles every day which were then displayed on our newspaper-wall. In this way we were able to maintain a dialogue with the…
First Year Immigrant
by Noura Bittar • Illustration by Mia Isabel Edelgart So it has been a year. God, I feel it has been a thousand years. I had heard a lot about the first year as an…
If the Sea Could Talk
Imagine if the sea could talk. Unfortunately it is impossible, but if possible this would be the time to lend our ears to different sounds, cries and songs but also to the many testimonials filled…
From Ixtepec to Nørrebro: More than “just migrants”
Pictures by Lisbeth Rasch The following travelogue takes us to southern Mexico, where – just as in the Trampoline House – there is a steady fight going on for the right to migrate. Migrants committed…
A historical overview of European asylum and migration policies
A historical overview of the development of European asylum and migration policies By visAvis From the beginning of the making of visAvis, it has been of great significance for us not to see Danish asylum…
No Border Camp 2012 – Organisation Without Borders
Organisation meeting for No Borders Camp 2012 Saturday 21 January 2012 at 6.30pm in the Trampoline House. By No Border Stockholm No Borders groups meet every year to make actions against the structures that…
An account from No Borders camp 2011
An account from No Borders Camp 2011, Siva Rika, Bulgaria: This year’s No Borders Camp took place in Bulgaria, a country with a horrifying history of alienation and persecution. But hundreds of international activists are trying…
Death Celebration
Somalia is heavily afflicted by the group Al-Shabab whichbrainwashes children and engages in terror. The countryis one of the most unsafe places in the world from wheremillions of people have been driven into exile. by…
