BY ALI • ILLUSTRATION BY YILDIZ ARSLAN • FROM #10, 2014 I live in a camp waiting for nothing. I’m a rejected asylum seeker. I have been in Denmark for two years and one month…
Migration and Borders
Editorial to visAvis #10
BY VISAVIS • ILLUSTRATION FROM THE PROJECT LOVE IS SWEET, BUT CANNOT EAT • FROM #10, 2014 Hello and welcome to visAvis # 10! Our efforts and hopes for this issue are part of an…
‘Deporting and Detaining families…’ by Meredith Stern
“Deporting and Detaining Parents Shatters Families.” Poster from the Migration Now portfolio by Meredith Stern from Justseeds Artists’ Coorperative. For more information see: www.migrationnow.com and www.justseeds.org
‘Staying Power’ by Mary Tremonte
“Staying Power – immigrants form families and plant roots in our communities …” Poster from the Migration Now portfolio by Mary Tremonte from Justseeds Artists’ Coorperative. For more information see: www.migrationnow.com and www.justseeds.org
Obviously I Will Be Caught If I Go Back
When you are seeking asylum in a country where the government does not recognize the danger you are fleeing from. When a peace agreement does not mean peace. About the difficulty of being Sudanese –…
Kastrup Airport
– a few words about the lot of the immigrant By Alen Mešković · illustration by Casper Øbro One summer day in 1996 I landed at Kastrup Airport after a three-week vacation in the Balkans.…
Control of Fingerprints – Power over People
In recent years, there has been an increasing use of so-called biometric information (e.g. photograph and fingerprints) in asylum and integration systems. Philosophical reflection calls attention to this tendency and considers it a disturbing characteristic…
Coming Out as Undocumented: Notes on Undocubus
“¡Sin Papeles, Sin Miedo!”, “No Papers, No Fear!”, with these words a group of illegalized migrants descended from a bus at the Democratic National Convention that was just about to re-elect Barack Obama as their…
‘Lend Your Humanity’ by Thea Gahr
“Lend your humanity – free movement for the people of the World.” Poster from the Migration Now portfolio by Thea Gahr from Justseeds Artists’ Coorperative. For more information see: www.migrationnow.com and www.justseeds.org
Found in Translation – Notes on meeting and understanding pain
To meet another person often means to meet someone you do not fully understand. There is a gap between us. A gap to be bridged if we want to relate to each other in a…
