Silenciées (Silenced) is a collection of testimonies from people who are or have been detained in detention centres in Belgium. These prisons, that do not speak their name, are where the Belgian state locks up and detains people who, in its eyes, do not have the “right papers”. The state imprisons them with a view to expelling them far away from the territory.
Our book also contains contextual information, militant texts, interviews with other collectives and illustrations.
Over the days, weeks and months of detention, the detainees tell their stories: the violence of confinement, the racism of staff and institutions, the total lack of access to the most basic rights, the expulsions, the solidarity that is organised, the resistance,…
Getting the Voice Out. Voices that are stifled, repressed, invisibilised, instrumentalised. Silenced.
Since 2010, our collective has been collecting testimonies from people held in Belgian detention centres. This book is a way of bringing their voices to you.
We dream of a world without walls and borders, where everyone can move and settle wherever they wish to, for whatever reason. A world with papers for everyone, or papers for no one. A world without nations, states or institutions. So that, finally, we can be free.
Where can you find the book in Belgium?
Silenciées is sold in Belgium (only in French at the moment) in the following bookstores:
In Brussels:
– Ici sont les Lions
– Météores
– Brin d’acier
– Tulitu
– Par Chemins
– Les yeux gourmands
– Chimères
– Tram{e}
– Poëtini
– Tropismes
In Liège:
– Entre-temps
Silenciées is also available to order from it’s publishing house Petites Singularités.
Contact them by mail! asbl@lesoiseaux.io
Where can you find the book in France?
Silenciées is sold in France in the following bookstores:
In Paris :
– Libralire
– Le Merle Moqueur
– Les mots à la bouche
– Les nouveautés
– Nouvel équipage
In Marseille :
– L’Hydre aux mille têtes
– L’odeur du temps
– L’histoire de l’œil
– Maupetits
– Transit
In Lille :
– Biglemoi
Silenciées is also available to order from it’s publishing house Petites Singularités.
Contact them by mail! asbl@lesoiseaux.io
Silenciées is priced at €13.12
All profits from the sale of the book go directly to support the struggles of people held in Belgian detention centres, and to cover the cost of recharging mobile phones inside the centres.
Would you like to support their fight financially?
You can also make a donation directly by bank transfer to account :
BE58 5230 8016 1279
(name: Collectif contre les expulsions)
Abolish all borders and the fortresses they create.
No to detention and imprisonment.
No to deportations.
Freedom of movement and settlement for all!
