#14 Migration narratives: Trapped in racism and colonialism?
We have been raised and operate in an environment in which narrations on “migration” and “migrants” are intrinsically racist and colonial. The terms themselves attempt to eclipse and decontextualise Global South mobility within a deeply imbalanced and exploitative postcolonial global system. This allows policymakers to target racialized people by making their movement, stay and activities irregular through reforms focused on excluding them from legality. Public acceptance of these policies is enabled by an often-non-critical media discourse which further dehumanizes migrants”. These othering narratives run deep and without actively seeking to identify and deconstruct them, they will be reproduced even by those acting for the interest of “migrants”. In these circumstances, can we ever talk of “migrants” and “migration” without perpetuating racism and colonialism? How much do narratives matter in efforts for social justice?In this episode, listen to the live recording of an evening event hosted by Hanaa Hakiki from ECCHR’s Border Justice team as she is joined by guests to explore how deeply narratives on migration are still trapped in racism and colonialism. Together they discuss knowledge and narrative formation, the pseudo-science of constructed identities and categories, as well as the aliveness of colonization coupled with collective amnesia. Thinking beyond the present, the guests talk about the power of reimagining new futures, of reclaiming language and celebrating amazing human connections. Hanaa’s guests are Aghogho Akpome, Musa Okwonga and Sandra Alloush. Aghogho is a narratives specialist and associate professor from the University of Zululand. Through his project, “The refugee ‘crisis’ and European re-imaginings of Africa”, he has analysed the portrayal of black African refugees by authors, filmmakers and playwrights. Musa is a widely published journalist, the author of a number of books including, “In the End It was All About Love” and he hosts a very popular football podcast and Sandra is a Syrian refugee journalist and documentary filmmaker and vice chair of the European Network Against Racism.
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#13 International Law and Repression: A Conversation with Francesca Albanese
Die neue Folge „Staatsräson gegen
Grundrechte“ beschäftigt sich mit der deutschen Staatsräson im Kontext der
anhaltenden Kriegsverbrechen Israels in Gaza. Welche politischen, rechtlichen
sowie gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen hat sie im Inneren? Und welche solidarischen
Allianzen lassen sich gegen die repressiven Maßnahmen schließen?
Im Gespräch mit Amira Tamim (ECCHR
Alumna) sind Simin Jawabreh, Aktivistin und Politikwissenschaftlerin und Paula
Zimmermann, Fachreferentin für Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit bei Amnesty
International.
Das ECCHR hat mehrere Eilanträge gegen deutsche
Kriegswaffen- und Rüstungsexporte nach Israel gestellt. Unsere Serie von Klagen
und Eilanträgen begann am 11. April 2024 vor dem Verwaltungsgericht
Berlin. Erfahrt hier mehr
über den Fall. In unserem Q&A findet
ihr Fragen und Antworten zum Thema Völkerrecht und den aktuellen Krieg in Gaza.
Auch zum rechtlichen Hintergrund des Genozids sowie aktuellen Entwicklung haben
wir Fragen und Antworten aufbereitet. Diese findet ihr hier.
Amnesty International
veröffentlichte gerade einen Bericht, in dem sie zu dem Schluss kommen, dass
Israel in Gaza einen Genozid begeht. Den Bericht findet ihr in englischer
Sprache hier. Zur systematischen Einschränkung und Unterdrückung
der Versammlungsfreiheit in Europa gab Amnesty diesen Bericht in englischer Sprache heraus.
Simin Jawabreh hat diesen Artikel zum
kürzlich wieder eingeführten Ordnungsrecht und den damit verbunden Repressionen
an deutschen Hochschulen verfasst.
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#11 Archival interventions - The untold stories of (colonial) wars
Human rights in times of crises #2
Law not only organizes and secures economic profits, it is a crucial factor in creating wealth. Katharina Pistor (author, Columbia Law School) speaks with Guillermo Torres (lawyer, ProDESC), Johan Horst (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Miriam Saage-Maaß (ECCHR program director Business and Human Rights) about how corporate power and law are intertwined.
Our guests explore how economic and financial law are important factors in creating corporate power, and our legal and political options to restrict this dynamic of growing corporate wealth and power. Can human rights, especially economic and social rights, play a role in insuring our societies become more equitable?
Human rights in times of crises is ECCHR’s talk series on resistance and concrete utopias. With our conversations, we want to create the necessary platform for actors from all over the world to discuss and advance global human rights struggles. Human rights are a concrete utopia worth defending. But how to defend them needs to be constantly reinvented. As we find ourselves in a time of profound global transitions, human rights actors need to refer to prevailing inequalities and the underpinning social questions. ECCHR initiated an event series that is now available as a podcast to rethink the struggle for and around human rights.
For more information, go to ecchr.eu/human-rights-in-times-of-crises
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