Jose, 57. Professional singer in his twenties, architect for 25 years, Jose is starting with his German wife a new life as an organic farmer. From economic crisis to drug war, his life seems to be a negative of Mexico’s recent history. Jose is a hardworking and focused student. Always very calm, one can still…
Category: Migration
Organised resistance in Germany’s capital
A look back on more than one year of refugee-strike in Berlin by Grüne Jugend In the beginning of October a protestmarch of refugees, who started in Würzburg (Souther Germany), reached Berlin. Already at the city boundaries, the activists were loudly welcomed by other refugees and supporters. The German capital was the goal of the…
Why not open to the world?
An appeal for Global Justice Migration seems to be a problematic issue. While Europeans use countries of the global south and east to produce the wealth they live off, it seems inacceptable to accept that the poverty created by this exploitation makes humans try to find their luck in the countries that have drained all…
Legalise migration !
Have you ever been on holiday? To Thailand maybe? Or to Dubrovnik? Travel is a wonderful privilege we should all cherish. Yet travel for most of today’s travelers is not a story of picturesque holidays, but rather picturesque stories of forced migration. As we have brought down borders to any and all goodies and services,…
International migrants day and Switzerland
At our national level, the migrants situation is relatively complicated and is not going in the right direction. Switzerland is becoming a more xenophobic country due to many referendums launched by an extreme right political party. Our government and parliament are always defending the Swiss humanitarian tradition and the Geneva Conventions. But at the same…
Immigration in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, Migration is an interesting topic these days. The PVV (a right-wing party) wants to close the borders for all immigrants and our current government has proposed a new policy which intends to make ‘being illegal in the Netherlands’ a crime. It is fair to state that the current situation regarding the immigrants…
Illegal Immigrants, their stories behind their smiles..
Illegal Immigration in the Mediterranean region has become a top priority issue on the political agenda of the neighborhood countries. The measures and restrictions for visas and immigration taken by countries in the Mediterranean have increased the demand for smuggling from African coasts towards Europe. Hundreds of immigrants manage to reach the shores but there…
A Tale of Identity
When, in the year 762, Caliph Al-Mansur was traveling through the vast expanses of the Orient in search of rest and calm, his eyes fell suddenly on a landscape that lay idyllically on the banks of two rivers. Without hesitation, he ordered his soldiers to dig a large ditch around this piece of land, to…
Migration in Europe : an important issue for the Greens
During the recent days a journalist in the largest newspaper in Sweden revealed a chocking truth: over 4000 Roma has been registered by the Swedish police in a secret and illegal register. Several children as young as two years old could be found in the register, only because they were born into a Roma family….
A Conversation with Øyvind Strømmen: Why does the Far-Right occupy so much of the online political space and how can Young Greens reclaim it?
Following his lecture to the wintercamp, which illustrated examples of far-right hate speech online, Beatrice White spoke to the Norwegian author to gain further insight into his ideas on the subject.