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From Peru to Berlin: Building Bridges Between Different Ways of Knowing
From organizing collective action in defense of agriculture and supporting communities in border regions to creating spaces for intercultural dialogue in Berlin, Marita Orbegoso Alvarez has spent her life building bridges between different worlds. Through education, community organizing, and her association MigrArte Perú e.V., she encourages people to question whose knowledge is valued and what we can learn from perspectives often left out of the conversation. -

Finding Trauma Instead of Belonging: A Review of I Keep My Shadow Light
In I Keep My Shadow Light, Berlin is not a city of freedom and endless possibility, but a place where people struggle with displacement, bureaucracy and personal trauma. Walter Phippeny reviews Fionnuala Kavanagh’s debut novel and reflects on what it reveals about life on the margins of the German capital. -

Migrants With Degrees Are Not What Germany Is Looking For
As state-funded German courses become harder to access, many migrants are left trapped between limited language skills and low-income jobs. At the Lohana Berkins Center in Berlin, Darío Farcy and his team are trying to break this cycle through free education, solidarity, and community organizing inspired by Latin American grassroots movements.





















