“If we stay here we are going to die.”
Testimonies from refugees in Tunisia about their protest sit-in at the UNHCR in Tunis and its violent eviction
Testimonies from refugees in Tunisia about their protest sit-in at the UNHCR in Tunis and its violent eviction
While all of them face intersecting forms of visible and invisible violence, making border crossing even more dangerous and lethal for women, we know that women on the move are more than what they are reduced to, and that they bear a power and a strength that no border is able to defeat.
What falls out of sight through the constant repetition of victimhood narratives are the moments of survival, political agency, and resistance that demonstrate migrant women’s tenacity and the ways in which they transform themselves, others, and the spaces they pass through on their journeys.
As always, new revisions to border enforcement make migratory journeys more lengthy, costly, and deadly.
First they came for the refugees, and I said nothing…
Sie kamen zuerst für die Flüchtlinge, und ich sagte nichts.