Recommendation: Reece Jones: Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso 2016 By Lise Olivarius • 2017 Why are states so obsessed with restricting the movements of people, and particularly poor people? This is…
Struggle and Politics
Language is a soft and delicate piece of cloth in which every mother wraps her child
How is it possible to leave ones language and start over? When Jila Mossaed came to Sweden in 1986 she had published two novels and five collections of poetry in Farsi. In the following pages…
ICARH and the plight of LGBTs in Nigeria
Nigeria has adopted a range of laws targeting LGBT people. One Nigerian organisation, however, is trying to confront the dire situation by providing healthcare, counselling, and protection of LGBT people. By Loke Bisbjerg Nielsen •…
Nr. 56: My name is Ekaterina
Ekaterina Lemonjava is a Georgian journalist and migrants’ rights activist who was imprisoned in 2012 in the Polish detention camp Lesznowola: a closed camp for women, children, and families. The same year, she was deported…
Waiting for Asylum
visAvis brings two poems by Reem Zakzouk, a stateless woman of Palestine, born in Saudi Arabia and currently living in Sweden. In her writing she explores questions of exile and belonging, registration versus recognition and…
“If in Our Country”, The Policeman Said
By Ali Ali • December 2015 A “Syrian Swede”, whose status was complicated further by being a policeman, happened to check my documents at the Swedish border today. I gave him my passport, but his…
A narrative from the dirty doorsteps of ‘Fortress Europe’
Speech given at ‘Vi har Plads’/’We have Space’ – a solidarity manifestation for the refugees of the world with a particular focus on the situation in Syria. By Michelle Schulze from Asylret • September 2015…
Reflections on War and Home
The words ‘home’ and ‘repatriation’ are widely used in the public debate, but the meaning of these words is rarely elaborated on. Starting from experience from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this text attempts…
Women’s Liberation as the Measure of our Collective Freedom
visAvis interview with Dilar Dirik • Video stills by Joen Vedel • From #11, 2015 Scholar and activist Dilar Dirik is currently a PhD student in sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses…
Impressions from the border between Serbia and Croatia
In the no man’s land between Serbia and Croatia By Beata Hemer, Frederik Johannisson, Kirstine Mose, Lise Olivarius, Nanna Hansen og Paula Bulling • September 2015 The afternoon sun shines on the road crossing the…
