https://www.yorck.de/en/films/the-odyssey
the story of the filmmaker, whose grandparents escaped the beginning of the 20th century pogroms in Odessa is not less interesting of the story about the movie and the movie itself
Category Archives: refugee
Ukraine is about identity
Ukraine is not about territory, it’s about identity
https://iai.tv/articles/ukraine-is-not-about-territory-its-about-identity-auid-2099
His talk of ‘unity’ was ideological code not for re-creating the Soviet Union out of nostalgia for the Marxist-Leninist state. It was code for legitimating his dream of an ethno-nationalist Orthodox Christian mega state, where the category ‘Ukrainian’ is reducible and subsumable all-the-way-down to the category ‘Russian’. Putin’s notion of unity – his ‘bad Hegelianism’ – is fascistic, insofar as it seeks the erasure of individuality and difference under the blanket of universality and identity.
Europe Refugees Belarus
Europe’s Migration Crisis, Born in Belarus
“Europe’s last dictator” won’t hold on to power forever. But he has invented a new weapon.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/europes-migration-crisis-born-in-belarus
refugees in Belarus
EU and migration
Guide to rescue at sea for refugees and migrants
Guide to rescue at sea for refugees and migrants
on the Trek to America
A Deadly Jungle on the Trek to America
Some 90,000 people have crossed the Darién Gap this year on the trek to the U.S. The jungle between Colombia and Panama is one of the most dangerous migrant routes in the world – and not everybody makes it out alive.
The most dangerous part of the journey for Romain and his small family lies just ahead: Right after crossing the Gulf of Urabá, they will need to enter the jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, the rainforest of Darién. They will face an approximately six-day journey by foot through a dangerous forest where getting lost is common. Others collapse in exhaustion and remain lying in the jungle, an environment with raging rivers, poisonous snakes and wild pumas.
Pia Klemp
teenage refugees in trial in Malta
Three teenagers stand accused of hijacking a merchant vessel to get to Malta. They face stiff sentences – even though…
Posted by SPIEGEL International on Friday, March 26, 2021