Residents in Sjælsmark Deportation Center Answer Back

Working together across privilege

"Det er fuldstændig forkert at de har sagt at folk vil gerne blive i Sjælsmark" (...) "If we stay in Sjælsmark we feel that every second we are in jail" (...) "Jeg tror de har sagt det, fordi de har et job her og får gode penge." - The residents of deportation center Sjælsmark answer back! This wednesday an employee of Sjælsmark from Kriminalforsorgen was in national media talking on behalf of the residents - saying that the families and children don't want to move out of Sjælsmark. It is lazy and shows a racist bias of the danish media to let an employee from Kriminalforsorgen who is afraid of losing his job spread lies and talk on behalf of people in the way it was done this week! The families want to leave Sjælsmark and the few children who are in danish school would like to stay in these classes and move somewhere where they can continue their education.