More and more children are left in the care of relatives, friends, or professionals when their mom cross borders to seek places where there are more jobs to find and where the salaries are higher.…
Migration and Borders
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen: Access to Asylum
Reading Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen: Access to Asylum – International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, 2011 by Pauline Weller ‘Is there still a right to seek asylum…
Freedom, not Frontex
There cannot be democracy without global freedom of movement Statement by the network Afrique-Europe-Interact, Welcome to Europe and Network Critical Migration and Border Regime Research. Written March 8 2011. Illustration: A.E.Interact, Jon Erik Nyholm The…
City is Migration
City is Migration: The Urban Arena Under An Ethnographic-Genealogic Perspective by Sabine Hess Translated from German ‘City is Migration’. With these plain and simple words, the urban scholar Erol Yildiriz demonstrates the structural interrelation between…
Maltreatment on their route to Europe
The experiences of Somali refugees: Maltreatment on their route to Europe The refugee route from Somalia to Europe is paved with cynicaltraffickers, risky voyages, confiscations, humiliations and torture.It is a scary space, and difficult to…
Kingsley’s Crossing
This is another story on Kingsleys’ crossing than the movie of the same name. The story of a journey from Cameroun through Africa to Spain and Denmark and back to Spain and Cameroun again. The…
