Archives - Program 2019

Fleeing war, seeking refuge or helping people in distress: all these actions can lead to prison. How did migration and solidarity become crimes?

Be it in Switzerland or Tunisia, France or Greece, solidarity is increasingly criminalized. Not only do States not assume their responsibilities for reception and asylum, but rather they are putting more and more obstacles in the way of civilian initiatives that help migrants. As people die every day on the world's most dangerous migration routes such as the Mediterranean Sea, it is becoming urgent to think about concrete solutions. Do we want to live in a world where solidarity is criminalized and where state institutions are unable or unwilling to fulfil their responsibilities for reception, integration and care of vulnerable populations?

" Some people are afraid of the dead. I believe that we should be afraid of the living." Giulia Bertoluzzi's Strange Fish honours the fishermen of Zarzis who collect and bury the anonymous bodies that have washed up on Tunisia's shores.

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