A little while back i made a series of illustrations for the danish magazine "VISAVIS", here is an internet version of the publication, but please go to their website to order a physical one, it is a good project worth supporting. Below is some information on the publication and a link to their website.
Background
visAvis is a magazine that focuses on migration and asylum, produced by people with or without citizenship living in Denmark. From our point of view the policies regarding migration and asylum are repressive. People seeking refuge are made suspect and migrants are made illegal. The asylum process has become almost impossible, life in the camps close to unbearable. This has serious, literally fatal, consequences for the individual persons. And for society as a whole this presents serious problems. The rule of law is being undermined and the public debate is loosing its nuance. In this precarious situation we wish to raise the level of debate, enhance the quality of information, and create a space where it is possible for people seeking asylum to express what is on their mind.
Cooperation and the social dimension
visAvis is a cooperation between people in and outside the camps in Denmark. To create something together is enriching, both at a personal and political level, it breaks with the isolation in society created by the camps, and it expands the horizon for everybody involved. The process itself plays a significant role and is of the same importance as the result. It should be interesting, as well as entertaining and pleasant to participate.
The three pillars of visAvis
visAvis as a magazine consists of three pillars of equal importance:
1) Bringing forth the stories and reflections of the people seeking asylum.
2) Investigative and explanatory journalism that here can find the space and time to go deeper than daily media flows allow; and
3) Commentaries and essays of high quality both intellectually and in terms of entertainment, where arguments are developed and exchanged to raise the level of public debate;
On all levels we think to be filling a void and to have an important democratic task to fulfill.
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