en español

para todos los q lo quieren leer en español aqui les va la misma historia, es un mail q escribi a un amigo mio:

te cuento de otro asunto en el q ando muy metida, es la organizacion
>q se mobiliza a favor de gente sin papeles. ya te habia contado un
>poquito de eso creo xq tambien es para una clase q me meti y pues
>tbn xq me interesaba, en esa clase tenemos q hacer una investigacion
>de terreno asi se llama y pues podemos investigar lo q sea, .... lo
>q nos interese pues..y pues yo escogi "los sin papeles" y
>especialmente decidi dedicarme a una organizacion q se llama "red
>universidad sin fronteras" y pues ahora igual formo parte de ella.
>la semana pasada una estudiante de argelia fue detenida en su casa,
>imaginate nadamas.. ella estaba sin visa desde hacia tres anos, era
>estudiante de maestria de linguistica y pues habia hecho una demanda
>de regularizacion hace poco tiempo y la prefectura se aprovecho de
>eso xq habia dada su direccion asi q mandaron policias q fueron x
>ella a su casa... y pues estuvo en un centro de detencion cerca del
>aeropuerto, paso x dos tribunales el viernes (la acompañamos
>tambien) y los dos guardaron la decision de expulsarla asi q nomas
>nos quedo la mobilizacion. hicimos una primera manifestacion delante
>de la prefectura el lunes a la cual llegaron alrededor de cien
>personas lo q esta bien considerando q namas tuvimos dos dias de
>miobilizacion e infomacion, habia la prensa, la tele q igual
>hablaron del asunto..y entonces habiamos previsto otra
>mpanifestacion delante de la prefectura hoy dia y en la manana nos
>informan q la expulsaron hoy en la mañana a las 9.... ni siquiera
>tuvo tiempo de ver a su familia q vive aqui.. pues igual vamos a
>hacer la manifestacion pero ya no para q no la expulsen sino para
>decir q no estamos de acuerdo con esos metodos, q queremos q regrese
>y pueda temrinar sus estudios aqui!! no manches, me da un chingo de
>coraje eso... el otro dia hable con una de las chavas con las q vivo
>y ella me dijo, pero Hannah, no podemos abrir las fronteras asi, no
>podemos recibir todo el mundo.. no es posible y ademas esa chava
>pues no hizo lo q habia q hacer, no hizo la demanda a tiempo ( o sea
>antes de venir a francia) y pues ya, la ley es la ley...
>puta, yo lo se.. pero igual es injusto q una estudiante seria, con
>un chingo de ganas, motivacion y chances este expulsada asi namas,
>sin posibilidad de tener papeles, ahora va aser dificil, aunq ellos
>digan q ay ahora ella pde demandar la visa en argelia y de ahi
>regresar.. eso se tarda meses sino años, noe s facil obtener una
>visa... entonces a ver q onda hoy dia en la manifestacion, ojala y
>haya mucha gente.. pero te cuento q ando pensando mucho en eso,
>inmigracion, visas, derechos humanos, sin papeles, ... es un asunto
>q me tiene interesada, confundida, mobilizada, pensando...
>

Expulsion

I will write in English so that a lot of people can read this...I'm living in Lyon, France, studying anthropology and sociology here and among others I am active in a group called Réseau Université Sans Frontières (Network University Without Borders) and we mobilize against expulsions of students without papers or visa. It seems that right now before the elections France wants to expell a number as high as possible of students, immigrants without papers,.. at most universities here people can sign up without having to present their visa (if they are not French) so even if you don't have a visa, you can very well be a student. France's stand on immigrants without papers/visa is very strict (has become so?!) and there is a lot of controls, detentions and expulsions.
Last week we, the network were informed that there was an Algerian student in detention, she had been in france for 3 years without a visa, had been a student all that time and had recently made a demand for a visa and well, since she had put her adress on there, the police had come to pick her up at her house and put her in detention...

On Friday last week she passed before two tribunals (one that would decide if she was kept in detention and the second one that would determine if the decision to expell her was cancelled or not) and the first one decided to keep her in detention and the second one decided not to cancel the decision previously made.
So we did a first vigil on monday to say that we didn't agree with this policy that we didn't want her to be expelled.. we had supportive letters from her professors, the university president, there was media coverage, television came, newpapers wrote about it, it was not bad... we were received by some members of the prefecture who told us that the law was the law, she hadn't done what was to do (apply for a visa while in Algeria before coming to France) so she needed to be expelled...
So we decided to do a second vigil on Wednesday because we figured she could only be expelled from Tuesday on because then was the earliest flight for Oran, the city she's from. But apparently the prefecture got scared. We had news that she was put on a flight to Alger on Wednesday morning at about 9 o clock.. she didn't even have time to see the part of her family who lives here..
Now she is in Oran at her sister's house and doesn't dare going to her parent's because they are old and sick, she doesn't want to shock them she says.
Here in Lyon we're all very distressed and angry, this kind of treatment is just not fair..We'll continue vigils and pressure so she canr eturn to France and finish her studies, she was doing a Masters in Linguistics, comparison of terms in molecular biology, between French, Arabic and English.
In the meantime we learnt that there are two new cases of students put in detention and under risk of expulsion.
The whole issue keeps me very much thinking about immigration, laws, papers, visas, human rights, politics,.....

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Esta es la primera vez en mi vida que creo un tal blog... no sé ni que voy a escribir ni en que idioma ni cada cuando.. pero si tengo ganas de irme a vivir esa aventura llamada blog y al final pues a ver....