“These Camps Were Built for our Parents”: Albanian Activists Resist Italy’s Offshore Detention Experiment
Albania has handed over its land to Italian-run migrant detention. For a nation of displaced people, activists say this is ...
Tag: Refugees
Gaza, Not a Metaphor: Childhood, Memory, and the Refusal of Spectacle
A review of Abdalhadi Alijla’s Fearful in Gaza, tracing how ordinary childhood memories under siege resist abstraction and restore Gaza ...
Palestine on Berlin’s Walls: Street Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Solidarity in Germany
From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, ...
A Journey through a Swiss-German Family Archive: From Colonial Palestine to Today’s Repression of Solidarity
Through letters, photos, and memoirs, a Swiss-German artist unravels their family’s colonial legacies in Palestine and how Germany’s unprocessed guilt ...
Decolonizing AI at the Border: When Algorithms Decide Who Can Move
Marketed as innovation, AI border control deepens racial discrimination. Black advocates call to decolonize technology and reclaim movement from algorithmic ...
Eternity Unwoven: Echoes of the Unwritten and Poetics of the Archive
Writing and archiving are emotional and political acts—a refusal to surrender memory to silence, transforming history into a living tapestry ...
Our time is tomorrow
The archive of the revolution is both a child of hope and its creator. Through documenting their revolution and preserving ...
Paradise, interrupted. The archive may not end
Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing ...
Solidarity, revolution and an android in Amman: A review of Friendship’s Death
Peter Wollen’s sci-fi parable of solidarity, screened at On Strike Berlin, speaks powerfully to today’s calls for boycott and the ...
Trapped, detained, and deported: How Cyprus has been quietly deporting Syrian refugees
With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus' deportation machine, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite ...
European politicians rush to expel Syrians
Announcing their decision to halt the processing of Syrian asylum applications, they have sparked panic among many Syrians.
An asylum system designed to silence: How documenting dehumanization becomes a crime
Asylum seekers in Bavaria face more than just borders—they navigate a system where attempts to expose wrongdoing are punished by ...
EU funds, Turkish xenophobia: How foreigners are mistreated in detention centers
A testimony from a detention center in Turkey reveals how the EU's outsourcing of border control results in severe detainee ...
Reliving it at a distance
Survivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. Their struggle and resistance in Jordan
The sad spectacle of Lampedusa
Thousands of people have landed in the past few weeks in Lampedusa, closer to Tunisian coasts than Italian ones. The ...
Less visible walls: how Europe (mis)uses AI at its borders and beyond
How migrants and asylum seekers, victims of Europe’s violations of human rights, are used as test subjects for tech experimentation
