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Allegra LabAllegra Lab is a collective of academics and an o Author: Allegra Lab
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Advocacy: Backway to Europe Episode Seven
Thursday, 14 May, 2026
In this final episode, the conversation turns to advocacy - what it means to do it from within a country shaped by donor dependency, short-term project cycles, and the structural inequalities discussed in the previous episode. Drawing on seven years of experience, participants reflect critically on why most funding for migration-related civil society work comes from European organizations whose primary interest is keeping people from reaching Europe, and what gets lost when programs arrive already designed, with local actors reduced to implementers. The episode questions whether sensitization campaigns can ever meaningfully address migration as long as the conditions driving it remain untouched, and confronts the mounting human toll of deportations - particularly from Germany -on individuals, families, and communities left with no psychological support and no material safety net. It closes not with easy answers but with a collective demand: for self-determination over aid dependency, for long-term structural investment over project cycles, and for an honest reckoning with who benefits from the current system, and who pays for it.
