Under this motto, the “Conference on Migration, Development and Ecological Crisis.” took place from 06-08 October 2017. took place in Leipzig.
Browsing: Flight & Asylum
Since the so-called summer of migration in 2015, the topics of migration and flight have increasingly become the focus of attention for society as a whole. Across Europe, many new groups formed to support and facilitate the reception of people fleeing their homes.
The art project, launched in 2001, described itself as a “federal association” and thus as a representation of the interests of companies specializing in services related to “undocumented cross-border passenger traffic”.
The project of the artist Marina Naprushkina started in 2007 as an archive of political propaganda with a focus on Belarus.
The series of talks curated by Grada Kilomba invited refugee artists to the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin between 2015 and 2017. The focus of the 13 talks was the question of how systems of knowledge and representation can be artistically and politically transformed, de-colonized, rewritten.
The Alarm Phone Network wants to support migrants on their routes to Europe with its video messages.
Art Spiegelman tells the story of Auschwitz survivor Wladek in his graphic novel. The character is based on Spiegelmann’s father, and the narrative setting – the father telling his son about the Holocaust and his memories of it – also bears strong autobiographical traits.
The teaching material collection “We are here. What Our Colonial Past Has to Do with Flight and Migration” was published in May 2017.
The transnationally organized network of grassroots activists in Togo, Mali, Guinea, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, among them numerous self-organized refugees, migrants and deportees, has existed since 2009.
“Few issues are discussed with more passion in Europe than that of refugees. But the affected people themselves do not participate. Where do they actually come from? What was their everyday life like, their life between home, work, family, friends and neighbors?
From Syria with Love is a project created by Rawda Abdel Kafi Mazloum and Baraa Ehsan Kouja. The founder and the founder come from Syria and are currently living in exile.
To mark the United Nation’s World Humanitarian Day 2016, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a pointed and meaningful speech. She pleads for more humanity and a more open approach to refugees.