A collection of stories from people held in administrative detention centres in Belgium.
📖 Meet us on Thursday 26 June at 7pm at the B.💣.U.M Bibliothèque for a discussion on the book Silenciées – L’enfermement des personnes sans-papiers en Belgique, with the Getting the Voice Out collective and publishing house petites singularités.
At this meeting we will be presenting Silenciées, a collection of narratives told by people held in administrative detention centres in Belgium.
Since 2010, the Getting the Voice Out collective has been collecting testimonies from people detained in closed centres, these prisons that do not reveal their name are where the Belgian state locks up those who do not have the ‘right papers’, in order to deport them.
During days, weeks and months of their detention, the detained people tell their stories : on the violence of confinement, the racism of staff and institutions, the total lack of absence to the most basic rights, the deportations, the solidarity that is organised, the resistance…
This book seeks to get out the voices that are stifled, repressed, invisibilised, instrumentalised, and silenced. After a brief return on the creation and re-publication of this book, we will share a moment on the practices of the struggle against detention centres and deportations.
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