MAIZ
maiz is an organisation by and for migrant women and was created out of the necessity for changes with regards to migrants’ living and work situation in Austria as well as in accordance with the strengthening of political and cultural participation.
In the knowledge of the legitimacy of our role as protagonists [...]
As the dust settles
:: this post was originally posted here
It has been instructive watching the way the media in the UK, and those who were actually caught up in the ‘chaos’, have reacted to the consequences of the suspension of air travel in Western Europe courtesy of Eyjafjallajokull, have reacted to the inability to travel as of where [...]
Copenhagen: seminar on the rescue industry and migration
great to see some of x:talk’s favourite sane people in the “trafficking” debate - teaming up for this seminar and … in the heart of Sweden. we like!
Managing vulnerability: The rescue industry and the struggles of female migrants
Danish Institute for International Studies - DIIS
Strandgade 56, 1401 Copenhagen
Open to the public
5 May 2010
1430 - 1700
Seminar with [...]
The Tory-like silence over refugees
[this article was originally posted here]
Away from the calamity and misery Blair’s government visited upon brown people, have you seen the misery and calamity his successor’s is visiting upon brown people?
How about…
A group of women being held at Yarl’s Wood immigration centre are refusing food for a fifth day in protest over the length of [...]
A migrant’s voice
Activists in Brighton are running a radio programme called A migrant’s voice on Wednesdays (2 to 3pm).
The programme will offer the opportunity for migrants to speak about their struggles living in the UK and also about coming to the UK. Migrants and activists are invited to speak about their lives and campaigns. This includes people [...]
Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood Women on hunger strike
London Detainee Solidarity Network has called a picket of Serco’s London office (Serco manage Yarl’s Wood on behalf of UK Border Agency) in support of the Yarl’s Wood women hunger strikers.
Friday 12th February 2.30pm
Serco’s offices
18-22 Hand Court (off High Holborn),
London, WC1V 6JF.
Please distribute.
End the Detention of Foreign Nationals Now!
Source for this Message: Women behind the Wire @ Yarl’s Wood IRC
Since the 5th of February 2010, we the residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike which involves over 84 + women, who are protesting against the period of time spent in
detention and the treatment that they receive while being detained.
The [...]
The Ease of Righteous Causes: What to Feel About Undocumented Migration
By Laura María Agustín
This article originally was published here: London Progressive Journal
It was easier when one could talk about asylum as a benevolent offering to virtuous people downtrodden in their own countries. It was easier when the category of refugee seemed transparent, when we knew about fewer armed conflicts and less, perhaps, about who was [...]
The Other Swedish Model
Laura María Agustín has opened up a column on The Local, a Swedish media site in English, called The Other Swedish Model. The introductory post is:
The pleasures of dissent: Not?
At a drinks reception not long ago I referred nonchalantly to the fact
that Sweden is supposedly the world’s most gender-equal state. A
shiver was felt; eyes rolled. [...]
Colonised yesterday; exploited today; tomorrow, regularised
This article first appeared on the French New Anticapitalist Party’s website on 22 October.
Translated for Workers’ Liberty by Ed Maltby.
A new wave of undocumented migrant workers’ strikes, bigger than that of April 2008, began on the 12th of October. Strikers are determined to get papers for all. To win that, solidarity from all workers is [...]