Externalisation of EU borders #4 - Stop Killing Us Slowly and the right to have rights

Working together across privilege

In this program, we will be talking about deportation and detention, specifically around two deportation camps in Denmark called Kæsrhovedgård and Sjælsmark. We are very happy to bring an interview with Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan, were we will talk about post-colonial critic of the human rights, selective memory politics, the right to have rights and the deportation camps. First in the program, you will be hearing an interview with one of the researchers of the report 'Stop killing us slowly' Annika Lndberg and Shakira, one of the recidents in Sjælsmark, one of the two deportation camps in Denmark. The occasion for today's program is the launch of a report today the 7th of september 2018, called ‘Stop Killing Us Slowly - a research report on the motivational enhancement measures and the criminalization of rejected asylum seekers in Denmark’ - written by researchers and activist who are part of the Copenhagen-based group, freedom of movements. Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan is an Indian academic and Professor of Political Science (Political Theory and Gender Studies) at the University of Innsbruck. From 2009 to 2016, she was Director of the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Her central research areas centre around Transnational Feminism, Global Justice, Human Rights, Democracy and Decolonization.