OPlatz — Berlin Refugee Movement

Tag: asylum system

  • Waiting sentence

    Uncertainty is an emotion that amplifies during a pandemic. This is a written text on my experience with the asylum process in Germany. Living in exile and reminiscent of memories. A deteriorating sense of self that the waiting game produces. I have been in my asylum process for 24 months, that is still ongoing. I…

  • Salah Tayyar dead. We are all Salah! Manifestations, Sunday, 21.3.21: 13 o’clock, Eberswalde main station and 15 o’clock Senftenberger Straße

    15.03.2021: A statement and an appeal of the group ‚Barnim für Alle‘. First arabisch, english and german bellow. ونداء  من مجموعة بارنيم للجميعوفاة صلاح طاهر. 15.03.2021 ! Changed: Instead of a Demonstration there will be two Manifestations. One at 13 o’clock, Eberswalde main station and another one at 15 o’clock, Senftenberger Str. 4 (Brandenburgisches Viertel). توفي …

  • The construction of the European Union’s immigration system

    The construction of the European Union’s immigration system

    These days it is getting obvious that the European Union, a supranational entity supposedly built on the values of freedom and peace, is putting a stamp on it’s mostly non-existant immigration and asylum system. That the European leaders selectively apply such values only for the economic and political elites is nothing new. New and surprising…

  • The European Union is enforcing it’s borders (again)

    The European Union is enforcing it’s borders (again)

    Yesterday, 15.10.2015, late at night an Afgan refugee has been shot by the Bulgarian border control police, after 50 refugees tried to cross the border Sredets to Bulgaria from Turkey. Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs is using an excuse that the refugees didn’t obey the orders to stop and even though they were not armed…