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Cross-border surveillance and racial profiling: the EU Migration Pact and the UK
“… not a fortress Europe, but a well-guarded house, with more secure external borders and clear rules on who is entitled to enter” European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas The European Parliament has adopted the New Pact on Migration and Asylum (EU Migration Pact). Despite the claims by the European Commission Vice President, this is no…
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Diaspora Dyke Manifesto
To mark Lesbian Visibility Week 2024, we’re proud to launch our Diaspora Dyke Manifesto as part of our Who is Welcome: Gender, Queerness and Migration. In the UK and in many parts of the Western world, attacks against marginalised people have increased. Whether this is by rolling back on trans rights including reducing access to…
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dislocated diasporic identities: A Poem by Dija for Lesbian Visibility Week 2024
It is always easier to count backwards from the end thanforward from the beginning. Easier to orient yourself in yourown countdown than history’s fickle hands of time. Forget themassacred family they had to leave behind, the lips crackeddry with starvation and every heaving breath tasting likeblood. You’re not concerned with the women that came beforeyou…