We expect evictions of the remaining squats in the next weeks and months, and that the arrests, imprisonments, and deportations will keep going. But we are not ready to give up. We will stay here, we will keep fighting.
Ajour Magazin spoke to one of thirteen illegalized refugees who decided that to get out and be part of society is more important than complying with the state; they moved into a derelict house in central Zurich.
A documentary team from the International Women’s Space (Berlin) met with an Iraqi refugee who has been forcibly separated from her family, both by her husband and by the German state.
In Athens alone, an estimated four thousand refugees live in squatted, self-organized structures.
“Injustice must be resisted.” A day in the life of refugees in the heart of Fortress Europe
“Nobody asked if we were okay, if we had been beaten. All our clothes were ripped, and we slept outside. The next day we walked back to Subotica.”
Long read: Observations from years of improvised refugee solidarity on the Greek frontier island of Samos
“I used to really miss my family and my home in Syria, but not anymore. I have lost my family and simply see no point in life. I even think it would have been better had I been with my family the day the bomb fell on my house.”
Observations of a visitor to the (in)famous refugee encampment the week of its “eviction.” It’s not what you think; it’s worse than you think.
Each day rolls into the next, and SNAFU remains the reality. We must all pull together.
