How to Build an Invisible Prison
People issued bounding orders are being criminalized and humiliated, receiving a punishment amounting essentially to indefinite detention.
People issued bounding orders are being criminalized and humiliated, receiving a punishment amounting essentially to indefinite detention.
The informal policing performed by the big humanitarian groups doesn’t save migrants from the risk of deportation, and it forces them to accept being controlled in order to receive the bare minimum needed to survive.
It seems that state authorities, their liberal critics, and the vigilante groups share a common narrative.
A year after Aylan Kurdi made the EU border crisis famous, a film to remind us of the intense times that followed (and, though mutilated, continue).
We need to stop saying “Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse…” Who seriously thinks it can’t get any worse? Still, there are things we can do–or rather, not do.
There is a new migrating subject who does not exist in the eye of the law. She is the victim of forced displacement that happens where there is no war.
If there is nothing dramatic to report, there is no media. But to live with this tumor in our midst is distressing in the extreme for both the refugees and many islanders. The system is foul and dangerous and criminal. Change is desperately needed.
Our solution is a social revolution. This will happen when the exaggerations of the refugee crisis become the reality and the proletariat of Europe works with them to create a new world.
As a result of the combination of closed borders, illegality, and the theft and violence perpetrated by mafias, many non-SIAs find themselves blocked in Belgrade without any financial means, neither to continue their journey with smugglers nor to provide for themselves during the time they remain in Serbia.
Without foregoing for a moment our basic demand for open borders, we feel the need to gather our forces toward the creation of decent living conditions for refugees in our neighborhoods.