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Buchbeiträge:

J. Pointl, Nina Kolowratnik, N. Akawi, E. Rega:
"Movement as Civil Disobedience: Mapping Migration and Solidarity on Lesvos Island";
in: "After belonging: The objects, spaces, and territories of the ways we stay in transit.", L. Casanovas Blanco, I. Galán, C. Mínguez Carrasco, A. Navarrete Llopis, M. Otero Verzier (Hrg.); herausgegeben von: Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016; Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, Baden, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-03778-520-1, S. 86 - 87.



Kurzfassung englisch:
In Lesvos, Greece, in the summer of 2015, most refugees fleeing through Turkey arrived on the northeast coast of the island, around seventy to ninety kilometers from the first registration point in the port of Mytilene: a white container in the parking lot of what used to be the city´s public swimming pool. Refugees arriving on Lesvos were denied access to public transportation, taxi cabs, and hotels. The few buses chartered by the municipality, the Port Authority, MSF, and UNHCR left the majority of people along the route, having to make their way by foot. Islanders and tourists were arrested for taking refugees to Mytilene in their private vehicles. It took around two days to cross the island on foot to reach the registration point. The grassroots organization Agkalia was set up by the priest and community activist Papa Stratis in the town of Kalloni in the center of the island. Networking with local volunteers, doctors, taxi drivers, police officers, and others, this organization provided the refugees who were left out of the government´s aid operation with transportation, a resting place, food, and some basic medical attention when necessary. Agkalia was part of a rapidly growing network of small-scale activist and volunteer organizations working in solidarity to protect refugees´ right to movement.

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