IWS got to know Viviana when she was still living the emergency shelter at the Wiesenstraße, in Wedding, Berlin. On the 29th of January we went to the Notunterkunft to have a coffee with Viviana and see how she was. The moment we met, Viviana was already showing signs of stress. No wonder, she was…
Beim Fachtag, 6.11.2015, des FAN Beirates wurden Betroffene, Wissenschaftler/ – innen und Verantwortliche aus Politik und Wohnungswirtschaft ihre Perspektive auf die Situation dargestellt, gemeinsam politische Forderungen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten erarbeitet und diskutiert.
This video of Sista Mimi was put together to be shown at the launch of IN OUR OWN WORDS / IN UNSEREN EIGENEN WORTEN, it shows Mimi during two of the most important moments of the refugee struggle in Berlin: the day of the eviction of Oranienplatz Camp and the resistance on the roof of the Ohlauer…
My name is Regina, I come from Uganda. I’ve been here in Germany for the last 13 years. I apply for political asylum, they reject. I apply again, they reject. I’ve been applying for so many times. And all this time I’ve been living with a ‘Duldung’, which simply means that I’m just being … they…
Bintou Bojang is 21 years old, she went through Female Genital Mutilation at the age of 11 years old. In 2012 she came to Germany and applied for asylum. At first she was rejected. The authorities didn’t believe her story. She then appealed and got accepted under the Humanitarian Help.
On the 24th of June, 2014 the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg made an operation called “voluntary moving”. The idea was to empty the former Gerhart-Hauptmann school, occupied by refugees since December 2012. The procedure involved over 1000 police officers and blocked the complete neighbourhood. From the 300 of the school’s inhabitants, around 40 people didn’t accept…
Sista Mimi/ DAS HAUS DER 28 TÜREN
Here’s two excerpts from our interview with Florence Sissako: “I lived here for 5 or 6 years. On this corridor I think I was the only woman here. Everywhere here to the door I have only boys, single boys, from Africa. They were like my brothers. What I used to do is, once in a while,…
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