Removal

Yolanda Chois Rivera

| Ghana |

We sit on the floor of the room. The house is located in Kumasi, Ghana, inside a compound — typical constructions of this country in which several families have their homes around a common central courtyard. There we were, the translators, an art student, Toafic’s father and me. Six years have passed, this was in […]

“Beyond the semantics of human rights”

by Daniel Martins and Felipe Moulin

In recent years, Asia has experienced an exponential increase in migration across a vast territory, added to cultural, ethnic, political, religious, and economic complexities. How are migration flows within Asia reshaping our understanding and approach to migration? Pia Oberoi:  When we look at Asia Pacific, it is sometimes difficult to set the boundaries of where it […]

"Migration — the clearest manifestation of the challenges of humanity"

by Daniel Martins and Felipe Moulin

Is there a common understanding for justice in the phenomenon of migration? It depends on what kind of migration and where that migration is taking place. Historically, much migration research has focused on migration from the South to the North. There has been a lot of emphasis on issues of justice but the literature in […]

The achievements and challenges of an unprecedented project for South-South migration

Periferias 9, Justice and rights in South-South migration is launched following the MIDEQ Hub International Symposium in the city of Rio de Janeiro, held in September 2023. Migration between countries in the Global South —  a term which brings together countries mostly in non-hegemonic positions in the world economic and politics system — is one […]

Art from the Peripheries Depicts the African Diaspora in a Digital Environment

Mariane Del Rei

| Brazil |

Ayear since the pandemic’s onset, society has had to adjust to a new lifestyle. This is just as true of art and culture. According to a study by the Brazil chapter of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-BR), while museums’ increasing digital presence is nothing new, the trend took off during the pandemic, with online […]

Vanishing islands

Text by Joyona Medhi | Photography by Abhishek Basu

| India |

Sea levels are on the rise at a rate of 4mm a year. Global climate reports state that we are on course for the second or third warmest year on record, with the global average temperature from January to October about 1.1°C above the pre-industrial-era average. Come to think of it, trends have actually worsened […]

public, environmental, and democratic health

Edition 5 of Peripheries Magazine, Public, Environmental, and Democratic health, launches amid a global pandemic crisis. This moment of historic challenge comes at a time of deep transformations in the dissemination of a regressive environmental agenda and an expressive growth in global ultraconservative socio-political forces, casting a light on the limits of society’s hegemonic model. […]

Global Grace

Suzanne Clisby
Mark Johnson

| UK |

At the beginning of May, 2019 academics, activists, artists, and NGO professionals from territories across the world met together in Rio de Janeiro to share, discuss and debate the possibilities and challenges of creating pathways towards cultures of equality (Percursos Criativos para Culturas de Equidade, 7 – 9 May).  The event was co-organised by teams […]

Humanizing the other

Anam Zakaria

| PAKISTAN | INDIA |

“Now I know that not all Pakistanis are murderers. They don’t want to kill me. I too can think of going to Pakistan.” This was what a 7th grader said after a Skype exchange between her school and me. The one-hour virtual dialogue we engaged in had changed her mind about my country. I wondered […]

Redes da Maré - WOW as a possibility for uniting female power in the contemporary world

Eliana Sousa Silva

| Brazil |

The WOW - Women of the World Festival is an initiative created by British Artistic Director Jude Kelly during her years as Creative Director at Southbank Centre (one of the largest cultural centers in the world, based in London), where she worked for over a decade. Since its launch in 2010, WOW has aimed to […]

Interview with Marisa Matias

by Tatiana Moura

| Portugal |

"I have been Marisa’s friend for a long time and I know well the conviction with which she personifies the maxim of “the personal is political.” If it weren’t so, I wouldn’t be the one here. And just as Marisa knows it, so too do the millions of Portuguese men and women that have felt […]