Mediterranea Saving Humans welcomes the new Maldusa project: may a hundred flowers bloom this spring in the fight for the free movement of people!

Palermo/Lampedusa, 3 April 2023

Maldusa is a cultural association aimed at facilitating freedom of movement, supporting existing infrastructures for migrant solidarity, as well as researching and documenting border violence, on land and at sea, on the Mediterranean routes.

The association is composed of activists involved in Search and Rescue, migrant solidarity and transnational struggles. Maldusa follows a horizontal and collaborative approach. It seeks to bring together various experiences and expertise to build bridges and collaborations between the North and South of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as between European and African realities, people on the move and with a migratory experience. Whilst documenting and denouncing the continuum of border violence, Maldusa's research seeks to contextualise it within a broader and more nuanced imaginary/scenario: on the one hand challenging the narrative of "emergency", on the other working towards the construction of collective webs and networks of grassroots resistance all along migratory routes.

Maldusa wants to deconstruct the image of the Mediterranean Sea merely as a deadly space, as a space of violence, pushbacks, non-assistance and selective visibility, in order to foreground the complexity of imaginaries and practices related to solidarity, mutual aid and resistance. Connecting apparently isolated events and understanding borders as contested spaces/relations, Maldusa places attention to processes, struggles and histories of places, actors and communities that converge at the border. This way, Maldusa wants to strengthen solidarity structures on the routes, and to support people on the move on land and at sea.

Contacts:

Website: https://www.maldusa.org/

Email: [email protected]

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