Dear all, we want to remind you that the Kritnet-conference will take place soon in Vienna.

You can register here until the 17th of May: kritnetwien.wordpress.com

Here you can find the Facebook Event

Migration – Criminalization – Resistance – Invention

Kritnet Conference 2016: May 26th-29th, Vienna, VHS Ottakring

While politics of fortification and racist mobilisation grow stronger every day, there are also multiple forms of resistance and invention that have emerged – not only since last summer – managing to fight, resist and elude racism in its various guises, violence, oppression, borders and exploitation. There are rather few opportunities for those resisting these developments to meet, to get to know each other, to talk and think together. Trying to fill this gap, this conference aims at enabling participants to exchange experiences, join their struggles, form new strategies and spaces of resistance, and alliances fighting these recent racist intensifications. We believe that in times that are marked by increasing state and civil racist violence, knowing each other, thinking together and forming common strategies can be key to gain strength, and to open spaces for reacting, resisting and inventing alternative worlds and realities to those we are currently confronted with.  

Workshops: * Gender and border regimes * ‘A culture of welcome?’ * Discourses on human smuggling * Mapping European Borderregime * „Balkan route“ * Refugee protests / Protests against illegalisation / Against camps * Right to the city! * Migration and border regimes from a West African perspective * Resisting new racist asylum laws * Critical social work

There will also be a workshop on the recent tightening of asylum law in Austria:

Recent tightenings of asylum law in the context of the European border regime & isolation motivated by racism

On a national level, asylum law is regularly and continuously tightened by the member states of the European Union. In Austria, a law on ‚temporary asylum‘ was recently passed and family reunifications were alarmingly restricted. The aim of this workshop is to analyze how such laws – like the Austrian ‚emergency state‘-law – are legitimated by discourses of overstraining as well as the societal and legislative racist conditions and to jointly work out counter strategies.