Grenzen Verlegd

In samenwerking met ASKV en Stichting Bootvluchteling

Europe is changing. Borders are shifting. Literally - through pushbacks, the way we treat refugees, and tightened border policies - and figuratively: in what we still think is normal. With the new European Migration Pact approaching, human rights in the Netherlands and Europe are increasingly being stretched or ignored.

At the same time, the lives of people on the run remain largely invisible to the general public. The cameras have disappeared - after the media coverage of the humanitarian crisis in 2015, when a million people fleeing reached Europe, 800,000 of them via Greece, and the short-lived shock following the fire at Camp Moria on Lesbos in 2020. But people keep coming, and they still hit a stark reality. The focus has shifted, but more than ever, people fleeing face exclusion, uncertainty and policies that won't let them anywhere - not on the road, and not in the Netherlands.

That is why ASKV and the Boat Refugee Foundation are organising: Borders Shifted. An evening where this reality becomes visible - not through abstract figures or policy documents, but through the people who experience it themselves.

We show what is happening now, what the future holds, and above all: how we can make a difference together. Not by saving others, but by listening, giving space and helping to build change.

Because if borders keep shifting, we have to decide where we stand ourselves.