Author: Alice Medina
Alicia Medina is a Spanish reporter. She has contributed to eldiario.es, El Confidencial, Revista 5W and A Punt Media. She directed a documentary (“La Porta Blava,” 2015) about migrant detention centres in Spain that was screened at six festivals and broadcast on Catalan television station TV3. She is currently working toward an M.A. in war and conflict information.

Surviving Denmark’s Open Prisons for ‘Undeportables’

By Alice Medina
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COPENHAGEN – Khoshnaw Nameq has watched his son grow up on the screen of his phone. It’s been nine years since he left his home in Iraq to escape a death threat. It’s been six years since his application for asylum was rejected in Denmark, three years since he married his Danish girlfriend, Christina, and nearly 18 months since his son, Kevin, was born. (More…)