Ja, vi elsker / Yes, We Love
National belonging is in many ways a fiction. Belonging always happens locally, between specific people in specific places.
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Power and Perception: The Role of Surveillance in the Greek Refugee Crisis and its Effects on Human Rights
The state surveillance of both refugees arriving in Greece and the journalists covering their stories obscures the Greek states dehumanisation of the refugees, reducing their plight to security statistics rather than genuine humanitarian concerns.
Free Labour and Humanitarian Aid: Targeted by States, Ignored by International Organisations
The humanitarian sector relies on unpaid labourers or ‘volunteers,’, especially during disasters and conflict responses. However, the spontaneous yet significant contributions made by these volunteers remain largely unrecognised.
Systemic racism in European migration politics?
In 2020, when George Floyd was murdered by four officers from the Minneapolis police department in the United States, a debate concerning systemic racism in the American police made international headlines. It quickly expanded to encompass the reality systemic racism as such, spreading to Europe and confronting nations allegedly incorporating structural racism that devalues black
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Undocumented Trauma
‘A true humanitarian does not get affected by the work they are doing’. I was surprised and, frankly, a little startled when one of the interview participants uttered this, staring me blankly in the face. It was not an opinion they conveyed but an established truth in humanitarian circles. Being 16 months into my PhD
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De oversette hjelpearbeiderne
Nok en gang er det stille i norske medier. Mai 2019 har vært den dødeligste måneden på Middelhavet så langt i år. 70 mennesker druknet i samme forlis den tiende mai, men dette blir knapt nok nevnt i norske aviser. Langs strendene i Middelhavet står hjelpearbeidere som blir kriminalisert for sin bistand. Hva skjer egentlig
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