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Izbjeglice Europe o borbi, organiziranju i solidarnosti.
Refugees in Europe on struggles, organizing and solidarity.
social forum in
Youth Center Dugave, ZAGREB. (Dom Dugave, Sv. Mateja 70A)
17. 4. 2015. 4pm
UrbanFestival and Petja Dimitrova invite you to join us at social forum on migration:
Program:
16:00 Center for peace studies, Croatia
16:30 Inayat Jiskani, Croatia
17:00 Mohammad Numan, Refugee protest camp Vienna, Austria
dinner break (cooking for you: Okus doma/Taste of home)
18:30 Rex Osa, The VOICE refugee forum Germany
19:15 No Border Movement, Serbia and Croatia
20:00 JD, MigSzol - Migrant Solidarity Group of Hungary
20:45 discussion
On Saturday 18.4. after 5 pm, going to Medika (Pierottijeva 11) to the „Day without borders“ for discussions, cooking and party organized by No Border Croatia.
A Project by Petja Dimitrova and BLOK (www.blok.hr) in collaboration with Center for Peace Studies Zagreb (www.cms.hr)supported by Youth Center Dugave
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Izbjeglice Europe o borbi, organiziranju i solidarnosti
Refugees in Europe on struggles, organizing and solidarity
“We demand our rights,” “we’ll rise,” ”stop deportations,” “we are here to stay” – these are only some among the slogans used in the protests of refugees and migrants in the streets of European cities. In Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, Calais, Ceuta, Melilla, Athens, Vienna and elsewhere, those who have managed to cross the EU border are becoming more and more visible and louder in demanding their rights.
Europe has a problem with refugees. This problem resides in its migrant policy. The joint system of Asylum politics, established in 1997, aims at securing the external borders of the EU. Thermal cameras, taking fingerprints according to the systems Dublin I, II, and III, security agencies such as Frontex, mass deportations, resolutions on “safe states”, interception of refugees in North Africa and Ukraine, violent push-back operations at the borders, isolated processing centres, detention centers, work and movement prohibition, new legal paragraphs used to criminalize migrants and refugees – this is the desperate “vision” of this xenophobic policy backed up by racism. International norms for refugee protection have been losing efficiency. People seek security in the EU, but if their asylum claim is refused, they can end up with nothing: no home, no money, without the right to work and stay.
What is the situation in Croatia? Refugees keep coming and many are here to stay. What rights and options do they have? What problems and struggles must they face? What subjects are active in the field? What can we learn from the refugee movement in the EU regarding self-organization, resistance, and solidarity? Good life for everyone in Europe – what would that be? (PD)
17+18 April 2015 Zagreb