Situating age determination in post-colonial relations
What is the impact of colonialism and racism on the idea and practice of migration and age determination today? We analyze the relationship between colonial economic relations involving Bremen and the legal and medical categorizations of non-European migrants as non-citizens.
The consequences of age determinations
What are the consequences of the process of age determination on people's lives when they are assessed as “adults”? What does deportability feel like?
Visions and dreams for our future
How do people envision their personal and our common future? In this part, we share their visions: from abolishing age estimations, to more human connection beyond racist discriminations, to personal dreams.
The procedure of age estimations
For estimating migrants' ages, the youth welfare services first interview them in a so called “visual inspection” (“qualifizierte Inaugenscheinnahme”). If there are doubts or if the migrants request it, a medical age estimation is carried out. There, forensic doctors take X-rays, MRI or CT scans of people's teeth, collarbones and hands. How do migrants experience and analyze this?
Resisting and coping with age estimations
Refugees are fighters. Surviving wars, the impact of climate change in their home countries, oppressive regimes, the Sahara desert and the dinghies to the shores of Europe. The resistance goes on in Europe, as refugees raise their voices to demand their rights to be recognised and to have equal opportunities. What are their strategies of coping with the extreme effects of age determinations and the border regime? How do they engage in solidarity with and for each other?
This website is the outcome of a collaboration between four activists of Together We Are Bremen and two researchers of the University of Bayreuth.
The project was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Grant #SCHR 981/10-2).
The website design and development was carried out by William VanderVeen with support from Unnati Shukla. Felix Schramm from ag-prop supported and advised us throughout the website development process. Our workshops took place at LidiceHaus in Bremen.
You can contact Together We Are Bremen at shut-down-gottlieb-daimler@free-migration.org or you can write a message on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
For more information about the research project, you can reach us via email at born-twice@uni-bayreuth.de.
Together We Are Bremen needs regular donations, to help them to continue self-organization and the struggles for the right to stay and against racism in Bremen.
You can donate to a private account or to the account of the association BreSoC (BremenSolidarityCenter).
You can donate to the private account in case you don't need a receipt for your taxes. For TWAB, the private account means less administrative requirements. Send an email to contact@togetherwearebremen.org or send them a message on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter for the account information.
Together we are Bremen
Voices of Resistance
cooperativa-film.de
Flüchtlingsrat Bremen
Bremer JungenBüro
Women in Exile
International Women Space
Radio Show of International Women Space
Wort- und Herzschlag
Kollektiv Polylog
Pro Asyl
Bayerischer Flüchtlingsrat
Beratungs- und Betreuungszentrum für junge Geflüchtete und Migranten Berlin
Research Group Anthropology of Global Inequalities
Boas Blogs - Undoing Race and Racism
antiAtlas Journal
Media about the (fight against the) denial of Birth Certificates: here, here, and here.
All people quoted in the interviews gave their consent to be part of the project. To protect their identity, we have anonymized the quotes.
The photographs that we use on this website were either taken by ourselves or by TWAB.
All tools and services used to create this website are GDPR compliant.
This website is the outcome of a collaboration between four activists of Together We Are Bremen and two researchers of the University of Bayreuth. The project was funded by the German Research Foundation (). The website development and design was carried out by with support from . Felix Schramm from supported and advised us throughout the website development process. Our workshops took place at in Bremen.
You can contact Together We Are Bremen at or you can write a message on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. For more information about the research project, you can reach us via email at born-twice@uni-bayreuth.de.
Together We Are Bremen needs regular donations, to help them to continue self-organization and the struggles for the right to stay and against racism in Bremen. You can donate to a private account or to the account of the association BreSoC (BremenSolidarityCenter). You can donate to the private account in case you don't need a receipt for your taxes. For TWAB, the private account means less administrative requirements. Send an email to contact@togetherwearebremen.org or send them a message on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter for the account information.
Together we are Bremen, Voices of Resistance, cooperativa-film.de, Flüchtlingsrat Bremen, Bremer JungenBüro, Women in Exile, International Women Space, Radio Show of International Women Space, Wort- und Herzschlag, Kollektiv Polylog, Pro Asyl, Bayerischer Flüchtlingsrat, Beratungs- und Betreuungszentrum für junge Geflüchtete und Migranten Berlin, Research Group Anthropology of Global Inequalities, Boas Blogs - Undoing Race and Racism, antiAtlas Journal, Media about the (fight against the) denial of Birth Certificates: here, here, and here.
All people quoted in the interviews gave their consent to be part of the project. To protect their identity, we have anonymized the quotes. The photographs that we use on this website were either taken by ourselves or by TWAB. All tools and services used to create this website are GDPR compliant.
