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I did not see that coming!
The last working day in Madrid was so full of summing up and putting together all the elements of the program that it is on me to write this post. The other missing posts will be published later. The Saturday started wit... (more)
Exile – an eternal story?
Hear this tale as old as time Another soul in exile Young man is standing by the shore He cannot take it anymore The days are looking all the same nothing can take away the pain If from the regime he does not flee He sur... (more)
Exile from the premises
Our quest to explore exile in different contexts went from a macroperspective to a microperspective as we started the fourth day. The first morning block was spent in the company of Mr. Themba Nyathi, the first secretary... (more)
Day 3, part II: Can a person be illegal?
Paloma Fevieres from the Spanish Commission for Refugees (CEAR) gave insight to the situation of asylum seekers in Spain. The NGO she works for provides legal and practical support for people, who managed to reach Spanis... (more)
Around worldwide exile in a day
The third day of the seminar was a very informative one. The day began with a visit from Paloma Favieres, the representative of the Servicio Juridico del Comite Espanol de Ayuda al Refugiando (CEAR) Madrid. After anothe... (more)
“Franco was a serious dictatorship. No bullshit.”
After a well-deserved night of rest we awoke to the second day of the seminar. Today’s agenda was exploring the concept of cultural exile, and what better way to do that than to head off to a place that is closely ... (more)
Exile Stories VI: Madrid – 30 years ago…
On the evening of the 24th of July 2011 20 young Europeans met in Madrid in order to discuss „EXILE” in Europe. But we won’t be the first ones as Laura from Latvia found out: About 30 years ago Madrid had already been a... (more)
Day one under the Madrid sun
After a tiring day of arrivals and thanks to it being a holiday in Spain – The day of Santiago – the first official day of our glorious seminar began a bit later than it will for the rest of the week. In the morni... (more)
Exile stories V: Denationalization, cause of exile.
Having a successful exile is never easy. Katherine interviewed a Kurdish couple that had to leave Syria after being dispossessed of their nationality; they couldn’t be Syrian but neither Kurdish. They live now in Germany... (more)
Exile Stories IV: A soldier, a true capitalist, an anti-communist, a hero?
Vlad, who had finnished his BA in European Studies in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2011 found his exile story right in his family. Vlad’s great-grandfather had to leave his family in 1952 when he was sent to a concentra... (more)