Refugee women in Germany tell their stories in their own words.
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity….When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We met H. on a Saturday afternoon in the refugee home where she is living in Berlin. The brownish Neo-Baroque house, built during World War I, was for a long time the City Hall of Friedenau, in the district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. In 2016, the massive building was sold and it became what it is now:…
READ THE COMPLETE STUDY HERE: Study on Female Refugees Abschlussbericht_Final_ Spiegel online: Studie Frauen beklagen desolate Zustände in Flüchtlingsheimen Wie leben Frauen in deutschen Flüchtlingsheimen? Eine repräsentative Studie zeigt: Die Wohnsituation ist mies, es mangelt an Dolmetschern, Psychotherapien und Schutz vor sexuellen Übergriffen. Von Annette Langer Geschätzt ein Drittel der Flüchtlinge, die nach Deutschland kommen,…
Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin: Women’s Perspectives and Experiences, a collection edited by Hansjörg Dilger and Kristina Dohrn and written in collaboration with a Berlin-based organisation, International Women’s Space, seeks to focus in on the specific experiences of women living in different forms of asylum accommodation across the German capital. Jennifer Philippa Eggert welcomes this collaborative…
Click HERE to listen to the Radio F Interview with Damla Yıldırım. She is a Historian, Filmmaker from Istanbul and has been for the last three months in Germany seeking asylum. In the interview she speaks of the currently situation of women and intelectuals in Turkey and about what she has so far experienced in…
Click HERE to listen to the RADIO F interview with Camila von Hein, Lena Nahrwold and Katharina Epstude, three of the authors of the book “Living in Refugee Camps: Women´s Perspectives and experiences”, launched on the 16.12. at the Werkstatt der Kulturen, in Berlin. To order your book, click HERE. This book is our first…
SEE BELOW THE BACKGROUNG HISTORY: On the 7th of September, around 4 o’clock in the morning, in a Heim in Hennigsdorf, a refugee woman was again compelled out of her room, violently pushed in to a police car and taken to the airport in one more forced deportation attempt. They didn’t succeed because the…
سلام! من میریام هستم ازکشور کینیا. ۳۶ سال دارم و از ۱۹۹۷ بدینسو آلمان زندگی میکنم. سال ها پیش وقتی دختر خورد سالی بودم، همیشه از خودم سوال می کردم؛ اما تنها جوابی که همیشه می شنیدم این بود« زنان زیاد حرف نمی زنند». ازهمان آوان من اینرا درک کردم که زنان در افریقا از…
