Trumps Grenze - Eine Geschichte von Rassismus & Ausgrenzung an der Grenze Mexiko-USA Lesung & Diskussion mit Kathrin Zeiske

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Venue: Sojus 7, barn
Admission: 19:30
Start: 8 pm
Free admission

Donald Trump's second term as US president has been characterized by terror against migrant and above all Mexican communities in the USA. He abolished the right to asylum at the border and revoked the humanitarian residence status of refugees who had managed to cross it in recent years. In US cities, people are taken off the streets, detained and deported; in the worst cases, to penal camps in El Salvador.

However, racism is not a new phenomenon on the Mexico-US border, but is part of a long tradition of systematic exclusion and discrimination. The policy of hatred has led to two massacres on the border in recent years. One was against Mexican border crossers in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and the other against Central and South American refugees in the deportation prison in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez. This is countered by a binational border society based on solidarity and closely linked by family, education and work, as well as countless civil society initiatives.

Kathrin Zeiske lives and works in the Mexican border metropolis of Ciudad Juárez for a large part of the year and reports from there as a freelance journalist. Her book "Ciudad Juárez: Alltag in der gefährlichsten Stadt der Welt" was published by Unrast Verlag in 2022.

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