6/22/2023 0 Comments Deportees cirkus![]() This led to the creation of several long-lived asylum rights organisations such as FARR (the Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups), Fristadsrörelsen (the Sanctuary Movement) and Stoppa Rasismen Lidingö (End Racism Lidingö)-organisations that Anita was involved in starting, and in which she has actively participated.Īnita’s advocacy for people who have been forced to flee their homelands has in many cases lead to these persons, in their vulnerable life situations–including children and families-being granted permission to stay in Sweden. Anita and others involved in defending the human rights of refugees witnessed how the Swedish Parliament and immigration authorities in practice began applying asylum politics, as opposed to and as was intended, the asylum laws that Sweden had pledged to pass in accordance with the international human rights conventions. From the mid-70’s onward, Anita worked as a teacher of Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) and was active in the solidarity movement in support of refugees from South America-including those from Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru.Įarly in the 1980’s, there was a notable change in the Swedish reception of refugees. Her committed involvement in this work began in the early 1970’s, when she took part in hiding American deserters during the Vietnam war to prevent them being deported to the United States. Since the 1970’s, Anita D’Orazio has defended human rights for asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, and persons who are living in hiding in Sweden.
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