looks

old beauty everywhere


the office, just different rooms around a courtyard



one of many balconies on my way to work


Valetta streets

fragments

when I travelled to Malta
I wasn´t asked to show my passport/ID- card
a single time
nobody wanted to see it
I travelled
to work with people
where a passport means everything
and who are controlled in extreme ways
concerning their identity

yesterday we woke up early in the morning
to go with some people to the airport
for resettlement in the States
"if you think about what these people went through:
growing up in war countries, some have been persecuted and tortured,
they have travelled a hard way, some have been in prison on their way to Europe in Libya
for years, crossed the mediterrean sea in small boats, have been in detention (which basicly means prison) in Malta for several months, sometimes seperated from their families, endured often long time of waiting for protection and their resettlement... it´s a wonder they are not mad"

"He really comes from a persecuted minority group, has endured torture and prison
has been for 5 years in prison in Libya, you know their families have to buy free from prison,
made his way to Malta, was in detention, though is was clear he would get a status of protection. Out he got hit by a car on the street, he is going to be disabled for the rest of his life"

Currently the European commission is discussing their strategies on redistributing refugees granted international protection among the EU and for setting up an asylum vetting centre in Libya
So far,- redistribution, yes- in my opinion the Dublin II convention totally has to be changed
Europe has a responsibility to give protection to people in need of it.

Human rights watch has recently critised the sending back of migrants to Libya as it is simply dangerous for them...

Here is an e-petition against migrant detention centres in Libya

Better vote for an EU strong on Human rights on 4th to 7th July...

online action

two online actions worth telling about:

German e-mail action to candidates for the European parliament to make them aware of the violation of human rights at the outer borders of Europe
http://www.proasyl.de/de/home/aktion-ihre-stimme-fuer-die-menschenrechte/

Humanitarian Aid is never a crime!
e-mail action to the italian minister of justice concerning the trial on cap anamur

update

it´s finally, finally, finally official!
the "miststück" (my final thesis) has found its way beautifully wrapped in black hard cover on the desk of my professors
what a way! It´s done!
the last weeks have been pretty busy
finishing thesis
lots going on in the commune
did visit my dear parents, brothers+ friends in hometown
just for two days

AND organising an 3 months internship in Malta at IOM
I´m so glad about this...
such a good opportunity to see whats going on on the outer borders of Europe
it kinda worked out on short notice
A turkish erasmus student is going to move into my room while I´m away
and i found a room in Malta in an international 4 persons living commune
rented out by the cutest japanese women

too much to realise right now
I arrived today
feels like being somewhere in northern africa
malti sounds so much like arab
and there are palm trees and all these sandstone houses
the buses are hilariously cheap and orange- yellow old british empire style
they drive with open doors, people are ringing an old bell via a string on the roof of the bus when they want to get off
good first impression of my italian, belgian, somalian, maltese colleagues
...more to come

no integration!

this country is so hilarious... and so badly racist

year long debates in the news and magazines
about the oh so bad migrants ('die pöhsen muslime') who isolate themselves from the majority of the society and develop parallel - communities and want to live in quarters by themselves where they undermine OUR oh so homogenic culture and seek to destroy US. THEY get out of OUR control...

We actually have nothing against THEM, but surely THEY should INTEGRATE themselves into OUR of society of fully organic Germans (Germs?), so called 'bio-Deutsche'.
THEIR kids are too many and surely too uneducated. This makes them CRIMINAL. It´s the parents fault that they are so uneducated, because they DON´T CARE and don´t teach them THE language, OUR language.

OOPS, and then the PISA- study showed that Germany is one of the countries with an educational system that discriminates pupils not being christian, white, middle-class most.
Hmmm...
of course WE want EVERYBODY to have the same chances.
Of course WE want that there are masses of kids "with turkish background" (this is what defines you) to enter the gymnasiums and high schools. And its a nice idea to mix up the "GHETTOS" with the young students and creative people.

BUT, when it actually happens that the 'foreigner kids' (ausländerkinder!) enter OUR high schools, then suddenly WE take our kids out of these schools and into private ones, because we don´t want OUR kids to play with the ASSI-KIDS.
And when, like currently in Hamburg, the city wants to enlarge primary schools from 4 to 6 years of learning together for beneficial learning for all kids, the gucci-parents start to protest, cos they want THEIR kids to be seperated and THEIR gymnasiums shall not loose prestige.
Yes THE MIGRANTS (THE OTHERS) isolate themselves because they take flats affordable from the wages of the kanak.jobs in the BAD quarters and this is BAD BEHAVIOUR.
But the people able to afford a variety of apartments, they of course don´t isolate themselves into the WHITE CLEAN GHETTOS because they ARE the society.

Just to ask the question again:
Who is not integrating?
Who is seperating?

Deconstruct racism, start with yourself.
Yes, and I tell it to myself.