The Situation of Refugees in Egypt: Between Security Reality, Arrests, and the New Legislation By: Yusuf*   In recent years, the situation of refugees in Egypt has witnessed notable shifts and escalating challenges on humanitarian, legal, and social levels. Historically, Egypt has long served as an important and relatively safe haven for thousands of refugees

Josephus On Jah Thomas is a refugee and activist from Sierra Leone, who has been living in Tunisia since 2020 with his wife and son. In this interview, he speaks about racism, violence, lack of asylum access and the reality for Black migrants in Tunisia. Trigger Warning: This interview discusses racism, and forms of violence.

Identity is often perceived as stable and self-evident until it is disrupted by forced displacement. In my opinion, identity is not only a personal matter, but it is also (and maybe most of all) shaped by society and by social transitions. This reflection explores what identity means in the context of displacement, how its loss

How can individuals be expected to integrate into a society that systematically restricts their access to rights and opportunities? Beneath legal classifications and policy frameworks lie personal experiences shaped by instability, resilience, and exclusion. This text looks at how German migration law both supports and limits integration, using legal examples and experiences from social work

The question of who narrates, who shapes the global dialogue in which we live on this earth is as old as humanity itself. Especially with the discourse of decolonization and the rise of right-wing extremist governments in the 21st century, it becomes crucial to examine the categories we use to describe people and places, such

Waiting is a condition that defines the lives of countless refugees and migrants, yet it remains largely invisible in public discourse. For Palestinians in particular, the experience of waiting has become even more unbearable as news of war and destruction in Gaza reaches them from afar. Between headlines from Gaza, daily life in Europe, and

As part of the DiaMiGo II Summer Research Academy 2025, held from 31 May to 4 June at the University of Cologne, the panel Inclusion & Exclusion in the Perspective of Environmental (In)justice brought together scholars and practitioners to examine how migration, environmental change, and politics of belonging are increasingly entangled. The panel built on

During the DiaMiGo Summer School of 2025, we read a story titled “The Truck to Berlin” from “The Madman of Freedom Square”, a short story collection from 2009 by Hassan Blasim, originally written in Arabic, but published in English translated by Jonathan Wright. In the course of the DiaMiGo Summer School we discussed the story

During the DiaMiGo Summer School in a workshop with Nine Fumiko Yamamoto-Masson, we talked about the term “Kafkaesque.“ It describes moments when reality tips into the absurd, when logic no longer applies and you find yourself stuck in a situation that feels both nightmarish and strangely normal. One Kafkaesque moment that immediately came to my

Migrants who belong to ethnic or linguistic minorities – such as Kurds or Imazighen – have often been subjected to assimilationist pressure long before arriving in Germany. In their countries of origin, speaking their native language or asserting their cultural identity could result in repression, invisibility, or exclusion. The nature and intensity of these pressures