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Non-citizens: A series of portraits
Re-public, in co-operation with the European research project GeMIC, opens a new series of portraits titled ‘Non-citizens’. Publishing the accounts of men and women non-citizens, we will try to initiate a dialogue on how they are living, shaping, and negotiating their individual and collective identities while inhabiting Greek national space. What is the relationship of non-Greek citizens with the basic practices that are establishing modern liberal democracy: rights, participation, freedom, labour, violence? How are these intertwined with gendered relations of power? The series of portraits begins with a conversation with Konstantina Kuneva on violence on the occasion of the international day on the elimination of violence against women.
On Munting Nayon, the day care center of the Filipino migrant community
Munting Nayon from KASAPI-Hellas – Unity of Filip on Vimeo.
On childrens rights and citizenship
United African Women Organization – Ένωση Αφρικάνων Γυναικών from UAWO on Vimeo.
Alliance for migrant rights – Portraits
Elias Ali Hassan – Somali Community in Greece from UAWO on Vimeo.
Konstantina Kuneva talks about her experiences of gender violence to Lauretta Macauley
On December 22nd 2008, Konstantina Kouneva was attacked with vitriolic acid by two unknown men. Kuneva, was working as a cleaner for OIKOMET – one of the large private companies subcontracted by Greek public institutions to provide cleaning services. Kuneva, the first foreigner to be elected deputy secretary of the Panattic Union of Cleaners and Domestic Personnel (PEKOP), became the target of continuous pressures and persecutions by the company that led to the murderous attack. In this discussion with Lauretta Macauley from the United African Women’s Organization, she narrates her experiences of and views on violence against foreign women in Greece. Although she has escaped mortal danger, Kuneva remains in hospital.
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