enforceddisappearances

As de:border // migration justice collective and Missing Migrant Lesvos, we invited a community space with the hope to make (and take) space to be with our feelings, hold them together, make sense of and respond to violence and harm otherwise. We sought to centre healing and transformative justice as ways of knowing and being with violence, while decentring the state’s tools of law and evidence that only serve to entrench its power and perpetuate harm. We wanted to be(come) an ‘us’ that collectively grounds, re-members and resources each other and together through collective liberatory practices, such as grief tending,…

As de:border // migration justice collective and Missing Migrants Lesvos, we have been weaving the initial constellations of a transnational group of individuals, many part of groups or organisations, that have sought to respond to and resist border deaths and disappearances. We are now inviting expressions of interest to join an embodied co-learning space in the form of a seven-session online workshop (between March and June 2025) and an in-person convening in Athens, Greece (at the end of May 2025).

On 13 December 2024, de:border // migration justice collective and Legal Centre Lesvos provided their joint input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants’ report on the ‘phenomenon’ of ‘missing’ migrants. The joint submission discusses the underlying causes of migrants’ disappearances during border crossings and the harmful impacts of in/direct state actions.