Truth, Projects

Space – Time – Law: From Courtrooms to the Digital Memory

STATUS

Archived

ASPECTS

law, archive, human-rights, mapping, migration, digital, ma

TEAM

Seifeldeen Elfouly

PARTNERS

European Center for Consitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

ABSTRACT

In the context of asylum cases in the EU, mechanisms of law remain ambiguous in their language, structure and logic. My approach is an attempt to represent the law beyond its textual facade, while raising critical questions on the court procedures and its decisions making process in asylum cases. Can data maps offer a hybrid medium for countering legal procedures or for elaborating fragments of legal double standards? Do arbitrary decisions exist in the legal mind? What roles can data maps play in investigative journalism and legal activism? Can data maps frame critical patterns in legal decision-making?

In the context of asylum cases in the EU, mechanisms of law remain ambiguous in their language, structure and logic. My approach is an attempt to represent the …

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Leave No One Behind

STATUS

Archived

ASPECTS

migration, human-rights

TEAM

Johanna Wendel, Luka Vonderau, Lorenz Bohlmann, Katja Ulbrich

PARTNERS

Leave No One Behind

ABSTRACT

Leave No One Behind is an organisation and a movement. They see themselves as a community for solidarity projects, provide a platform and generate attention through social media and high-profile projects.

Leave No One Behind is an organisation and a movement. They see themselves as a community for solidarity projects, provide a platform and generate attention …

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This is not a Game

STATUS

Archived

ASPECTS

migration

TEAM

Maria Neri, Lena Konz

PARTNERS

Abou Bakar Sidibé

ABSTRACT

The violent illegal pushbacks along the EU’s external border between Greece and Turkey are structurally embedded and routine, but take place far from the public eye. State and Quasi-State actors (civilian yet acting as border guard entities) apply pushback protocols against international law for more than a decade, with numbers varying vastly. Between 2013 and 2017, UNHCR recorded 350 pushbacks at sea and on land involving 11,500 persons, 7,500 of which were expelled from the Evros land border.

NGOs such as Mare Liberum, Human Rights Watch and ECCHR collect and structure data, reports, witness statements and testimonies to form public awareness and political momentum around this illegal state operation.

For asylum seekers, the violent and brutal practice of pushback forms an unpredictable and life-threatening obstacle before reaching infrastructures to proceed with applying for and receiving asylum. Human rights lawyer and researcher Niamh Keady-Tabbal writes: “Often, it seems like the two countries are playing a violent game of ping-pong across the Aegean with migrant bodies.”

This quote was the starting point to make the mechanisms of pushbacks tangible in an unfair and frustrating board game.

The violent illegal pushbacks along the EU’s external border between Greece and Turkey are structurally embedded and routine, but take place far from the …

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Connecting Immigrant Voices

STATUS

Archived

ASPECTS

VR, migration

TEAM

Seifeldeen Elfouly

ABSTRACT

As a reflection on narrations in the context of migration history, Martina Böse1 started her essay Ich entscheide mich dafür, MigrantInnen zu sagen. Zur Vermittlung von Gegenerzählungen und Repräsentationspolitik in der Ausstellung gastarbajteri—40 Jahre Arbeitsmigration 2, with analytical comparisons between
General Narratives and Counter-Narratives [Fig.1], as methodologies of narrating the history of migration. Her approach states that the discursive networking of stories from different points of view, formulates how the public receives migration movements and migratory practices. Furthermore, the essay questions the authority to narrate counterstories and represent existing knowledge. Stating that the process of discursive
networking in this context is associated with archival institutions, scholars and researchers in the field of migration studies.
Toward a broad-based knowledge transfer, which aims for representational narratives for the public. Böse stated several questions as parameters to measure the origins and aims
of representational narratives:

- Who speaks?
- From which perspective?
- Who is the subject?
- Which voices are represented?
- Represented by whom?

As a reflection on narrations in the context of migration history, Martina Böse1 started her essay Ich entscheide mich dafür, MigrantInnen zu sagen. Zur …