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No lager - (No Detention Camps)
Camps for refugees and migrants - across Europe there are these places, that cannot be found on regular maps: from Italy to great Britain, from spain to Germany and even beyond the borders of schengenland: in Romania, Ukraine, lybia and morocco we see the emergence of buffer camps on the southern and eastern edges of the European union.
camps are not exceptions but have become institutions in the attempt to control migration as a social movement; they stand for the attempt to combat the autonomies of migration. they are a key-element for the migration-politics of the EU: part of the border regime, place of deportation and selection, and nowadays integral part in the creation of an European constitution.
it is time to draw new maps, maps of resistance that can be used to attack the visible and invisible fences and walls, to tear them down or sail around them quietly or to hollow them out and to undermine them. this site attempts to contribute to the struggle against this cornerstone of global apartheid.
since 2003 camps have become an important issue in the formulation of policies against migrants and refugees on the European level. currently the most ambitious project - the European union camp system - concerns the setting-up of deportation and refugee camps in North Africa that is being pushed forward by the German, British and Italian governments. similar ambitions exist for the Balkans and the countries east of the recently enlarged EU.