Category: Knowledges
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Beyond #refugeeswelcome: The Spectre of Racist Violence and Lessons from Refugee Resistance in Germany
Blog by Joshua Kwesi Aikins and Daniel Bendix This essay traces the current debate about refugees in Germany by contrasting Germany’s recent history of racist violence and limitations of asylum laws with the resistance and agency of refugee movements across Germany. The essay ‘welcome culture’ towards refugees, increase in the arson attacks on Lager, and the…
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the message: from and for lovers
the following is a direct translation: u know there is no wrong if we all write in the language of love. we are one.
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CfP: States of Exceptions: The Politics of Sacrifice: Martyrs and Migrants
Workshop: The University of Manchester, December 10th–11th, 2015 The workshop will be held at the University of Manchester, December 10 and 11, 2015. The following topics will be covered The Mediterranean Migrants Crisis: Critical Analyses Political Theologies of Martyrdom Writing a Vacuum: Ethnographies of Migration Phenomenology of Martyrdom: Sacrifice, Suicide, Killing The World Seen from a Boat:…
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Locked Up & and Neglected After Fleeing Danger, Immigrant Women Detainees Launch Hunger Strike in Texas, NOVEMBER 06, 2015
Below is a link to the Democracy Now piece about the women’s hunger strike in USA refugee detention prisons. The link has the video and also the transcript of that portion of the show which aired on 6.11.2015 http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/6/locked_up_neglected_after_fleeing_danger Last week, 27 immigrant women detained at the for-profit T. Don Hutto facility in Austin began refusing…
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Art and Geopolitical Borders, Contested sovereignty and art practice Friday 20 November, 2015
Symposium in Manchester: Art and Geopolitical Borders, MMU, 20/11/2015 In recent years there has been a growth in interest in the ways that art practice can both acknowledge and articulate the issues around geopolitical borders. This has become significantly more pressing in the light of developments during the last few months, whereby borders, and the…
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About the refugee movement in Kreuzberg/Berlin Napuli Langa
Napuli Langa–refugee-movement-kreuzberg-berlin (pdf file). In this essay well known refugee activist Napuli Langa traces the recent history of the refugee movement in Berlin and shares some of her perspective about refugee protests. Read on…. Movements Journal für kritische migrations-und Grenzregimeforschung, 2015
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Struggles of Migration as in-/visible Politics
Struggles of Migration: Visible and In-visible Politics pdf Introduction for the second edition: Ilker Ataç, Stefanie Kron, Sarah Schilliger, Helge Schwiertz, Maurice Stierl This article examines the ways in which a refugee movement in Germany came to represent a new dimension of forms of self-organisation. The article contends that the Oranienplatz movement gave birth…
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Panel discussion with Arjun Appadurai
Prof. Arjun Appadurai – Traumatic Exit, Identity Narratives and the Ethics of Hospitality Berlin Lecture 04.11.2015 um 18:00 Auditorium des Jacob- und Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrums der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, 10117 Berlin) statt. Der Eintritt ist kostenlos. In seinem Vortrag wird er sich mit Flucht und der Rolle von Identität und Gastfreundschaft beschäftigen: Flucht geht auch…