On May 3, 2018 a massive police attack took place in the Ellwangen state reception center in Baden-Württenberg, Germany. May 9, 2018 A statement by the inhabitants of the asylum reception camp in Ellwangen on the events of the last week „There was a lot of talk about...
Oumar B. was attacked on 27 September 2017 at the AEO Bamberg by a group of private security guards. The Senegalese asylum seeker was at the time living in this large reception and deportation camp located in the state of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. B's...
The inhabitants of the Bamberg AEO transit camp (Bavaria, Germany) protested on 17th January 2018 against the scandalous conditions and treatment they face in the camp. They marched from the camp to the town hall in city center to hand over their petition to the...
Demonstration 20 December 2017, Deggendorf transit camp Bavaria, Germany No 24 months in this camp! Stop deportations! No to racism and torture of migrants! On Friday 15th December 2017 around 200 people from Sierra Leone – women, men and children – started a 'strike of closed doors' in...
The demonstration in front of the Embassy of Mali in Berlin on January 31, 2017 was called by the group Djekafo from Halle and Afrique-Europe Interact. It confronted several policies: the embassy's practice of signing travel certificates for deportation of Malians from Germany, a possible...
La démonstration devant l’ambassade du Mali à Berlin le 31 janvier 2017 a été l’initiative groupe Djekafo et du réseau Afrique-Europe-Interact. ...
Le 11 Novembre 2016, date anniversaire du sommet de la Valette, les groupes de refugié-e-s et migrant-es Africain-e-s et le réseau Afrique-Europe-Interact se sont rassemblés pour protester devant différentes ambassades africaines à Berlin- Niger, Mali, Maroc- et devant l’organe allemand de développement ((Deutsche Gesellschaft für...
Why are people migrating within and from Africa? Why won’t models for migration control work as planned? What is going on with the trade agreements between the EU and Africa? Milka Isinta (Pan-African Network in Defense of Migrants Rights) was interviewed in Lomé, Togo, October 14-16,...
L’Académie des Migrations Africaines a été organisée à Lomé au Togo du 14 au 16 octobre 2016, sous la tutelle de l’association pour l’éducation citoyenne Visions Solidaires. Pendant trois jours, les activistes, les représentant-es d’ONG venues de différents pays africains et de la diaspora ont...
What is a biometric passport? What is the hoax about the Valletta process? What are the reasons that push young people to leave Mali? Inna Touré (Afrique-Europe-Interact, Bamako) was interviewed in Vienna, Austria at the kritnet conference Migration / Criminalisation / Resistance, 26 – 29 May,...
What is the Valletta process? What is a laissez-passer? How are “transit countries” like Niger used in European plans to control migration? What is the function of the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa? Why are African states complying with the European migration agenda? What are...
Qu’est-ce que c’est le DULDUNG* (“tolérance’’)? Comment est-ce que l’Etat allemand exerce la pression sur les demandeurs d’asile dont la demande a été rejetée afin qu’ils quittent le pays ? Comment est-ce qu’on produit un DEPORTATION GAP* par des mesures politiques, des lois et la...
What is “toleration” (DULDUNG*)? How is the German state pressuring rejected asylum seekers to leave the country? What is ASYLUM FRAUD*? How is a DEPORTATION GAP* created and addressed by policies, laws and collaboration between different state actors? Kay Wendel (Bündnis gegen Lager Berlin/Brandenburg & author...
What happens at a MOBILE EMBASSY HEARING*? What is a DULDUNG*? Why do people use fake identities in the asylum process in Germany? How does German immigration law define and create “criminal” foreigners and refugees? How has protest been organised against forced identification of migrants...
What happens at a MOBILE HEARING*? Protesters and persons who were invited to the mobile hearing of the Nigerian embassy at the Ordnungsamt Dortmund, Germany, testify. We took part in the protest against the hearing on March 3, 2016. Some weeks later we visited one...
Documentation of two protest actions in 2012 against the deportation collaboration of the Nigerian embassy in Berlin with German authorities. In May 2012 the demonstrators gathered in front of the embassy to protest against the issuing of travel certificates for deportation at the request by...
What is DULDUNG* (suspension of deportation)? What do “tolerated” persons have to endure in Germany? What does the “obligation to collaborate” with one’s own deportation entail (MITWIRKUNGSPFLICHT*)? How does the German immigration administration feed hate propaganda against foreigners when it refuses work permits from the...
What is life on Kettenduldung (long-term "toleration") in Germany? How can "tolerated" persons work? Alex Nuhu Banja came to Germany from Sierra Leone in 1997. After the rejection of his asylum application he has resided in Germany with a DULDUNG*. He was interviewed in Wittenberg, Germany...
Fadi Abdel Ghani’s testimony on a life of 30 years under DULDUNG* (suspension of deportation) and work prohibition in Germany. The Palestinian Ghani came to Germany from Lebanon in 1984. He was interviewed in Wittenberg, Germany on April 16, 2015. * see also GLOSSARY...