BY THE EDITORS • ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREA GAIDANO • NOVEMBER 2022 Standing on one leg is no way to live, but it is a skill. There are those with a firm piece of this Earth on…
Struggle and Politics
“Today it is Damascus, tomorrow…”: On hunger strike against deportations
INTERVIEW WITH SAMIR BARAKAT • 22 MAY 2021 Samir has been on hunger strike for four days at the sit-in protest in front of Christiansborg, seat of the Danish Parliament, organized by Syriske Forening i…
Danish Kurdistan
BY SHAHLÂ • ILLUSTRATION BY MARÍA MEIGA • MARCH 2021 Hello, I am Shahlâ from Danish Kurdistan. Ever since I can remember (but also before me), the Kurds have lived on the borders and in deprivation.…
The Pauli number
BY SHAHLÂ • ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY AFRA FEKRI • ILLUSTRATION BY MARÍA MEIGA • MARCH 2021 Greetings to you, dear people and governors. I have a question: do you really want to protect your country? Do…
It is very difficult
BY AN AVNSTRUP RESIDENT • ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY AFRA FEKRI • ILLUSTRATION BY MARÍA MEIGA • MARCH 2021 The circumstances during the asylum seeking period are very difficult. Bearing the heavy and humiliating gaze of the…
Avnstrup on strike: Eight problems and demands
BY WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS • OCTOBER 2020 The residents of Deportation Center Avnstrup joined our voices together to create a list of eight problems and demands that express why we choose to strike and protest the…
Vi, papirløse migranter, herbergslogerende og gadens lejere besætter i dag Pantheon
Fredag den 12. Juni 2019 besatte 700 Sorte Veste Pantheon i Paris. De Sorte Veste er en bevægelse af papirløse migranter, som kæmper for fri bevægelighed og for retten til at blive. Under besættelsen af…
Cowboy, get stand
BY JEAN CLAUDE MANGOMBA MBOMBO • 2018 Cowboy, get stand! Cowboy, keep your spirit up! I know that you fled because of inequalities I know that you fled because of war I know that you…
Don’t blame me for not learning Danish – blame the system for not wanting to teach me
BY EDEN • ILLUSTRATION BY YILDIZ ARSLAN • 2018 I believe that learning Danish is very important. That is why, ever since I came to Denmark, I have been looking forward to learning Danish. But when…
Barriers on the road of transformative dialogue: The case of Trampoline House
In this text, Ali Ali takes a critical look at the refugee and migrant community centre Trampoline House and shows how even a visionary project with the best intentions reproduces a power hierarchy with the…
