Buchgespräch: Das Fluchtparadox 2023

Flight is a contradiction: you want to stay, but you have to leave. Flight is traumatising: you seek safety, but have to put your life at risk. And flight (to Europe) is paradoxical: you have to break the law, i.e. cross borders "illegally", in order to get your right to asylum. Only to have to deal with contradictory demands and partly unfulfillable conditions of integration in the host country. In Das Fluchtparadox (Kremayr & Scheriau, 2022), refugee researcher Judith Kohlenberger provides a detailed analysis of how we deal with displacement and displaced persons. She traces the historical and current developments from a legal, social and individual perspective and shows how we can arrive at a humane asylum and integration policy. An event in cooperation with Plattform SO SIND WIR NICHT.
Moderation: Hannes Schlosser, Plattform SO SIND WIR NICHT
Seat reservations: +43 512 5360 5700
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Judith Kohlenberger is a cultural scientist and migration researcher at the Institute for Social Policy at WU Vienna, where she researches and teaches on refugee migration, integration and belonging. In autumn 2015, she was involved in one of Europe's first studies on the large-scale refugee movement. In addition to her academic work, she is active in the Integration Council of the City of Vienna and is a founding member of COURAGE - Courage for Humanity for legal escape routes.
Hannes Schlosser is a journalist and non-fiction author. Main focus: Politics, ecological and economic development of the Alpine region, medicine, social issues. Co-founder of SO ARE WE NOT
SO SIND WIR NICHT is a networking platform on the topic of flight. For years it has been committed - together with 722 individuals and 77 organisations - to an asylum policy at the EU's external borders that complies with human rights and to legal immigration opportunities to Austria.