Lecture, reading, talk

„No Border Lasts Forever“

Name: „No Border Lasts Forever“
Start: 2026-09-30T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-30T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Berlin Exhibition

Refugee Struggles in the Age of the Far Right

Berlin Exhibition

On the evening before the grand closing parade of the Caravan for Freedom of Movement in Berlin, participants print the flags together for the big day ahead.

Beyond Borders at BERLIN GLOBAL

Urban researcher Dr Noa K. Ha, along with Muna Abdi and Hassan Nugud from the ‘Welcome United Collective’, in conversation with Christian Jakob.

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Regular: 5 euros
Reduced: 3 euros

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Location
Berlin Room, Room 5, First Floor
Doors open at 6 pm. The event starts at 6.30 pm. Recommended for ages 16 and over.

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Duration
1h 30min

The second event in the “Across Borders: Drawing, Breaking & Shifting” series at BERLIN GLOBAL takes the recent publication “No Border Lasts Forever” by the “Welcome United Kollektiv”, published by Edition Assemblage, as its starting point.

In her lecture, urban researcher Dr Noa K. Ha explores Berlin and its old and new border-making processes. Her approach is guided by the idea that hope emerges through the democratic practice of belonging.

In conversation with Muna Abdi and Hassan Nugud, both members of the “Welcome United Kollektiv” and advocates, among other things, for the right to freedom of movement, the discussion will bring together Berlin’s urban history with the struggles and self-organisation of refugees. Together, they will explore how the city can be understood as a practice of porous borders.

The discussion will be moderated by Christian Jakob.

The event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into German.

Get to know the contributors

Dr Noa K. Ha is an urban, migration and racism researcher and serves as Academic Managing Director of the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). As an urban researcher, she most recently taught at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Previously, she conducted research at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CMS) at the Technical University of Berlin. She is a member of numerous urban advisory boards and advises research projects in the fields of postcolonial memory work and commemoration policy, integration research, anti-racism, and the history of migration in eastern Germany.

Muna Abdi comes from Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, where she studied journalism, mass communication and public administration. She worked for various local and international media outlets before arriving in Germany as an asylum seeker in 2024. Since then, she has continued to use her journalistic skills in different contexts. In 2025, among other projects, she wrote a diary documenting the “Caravan for Freedom of Movement”, an initiative organised by the anti-racist network “We’ll Come United”.

Hassan Nugud is originally from Sudan and has lived in Berlin since 2015. He works as a social worker and project coordinator in an independent counselling service for refugees with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses. In addition, he is actively involved in civil society organisations, including the network “We’ll Come United”, “Sudan Club e.V.”, the board of “Handwerker für Darfur”, and “Sudan Uprising Germany”. He is also a board member of the Berlin Refugee Council.

Christian Jakob is a journalist and has been writing for the German daily newspaper “taz” for the past 20 years. He also publishes with Ch. Links Verlag, where his most recent book, “Endzeit. Die neue Angst vor dem Untergang und der Kampf um unsere Zukunft”, appeared in 2023. Since 2019, he has co-edited the “Atlas of Migration” for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. He previously published “Die Bleibenden”, a history of the refugee movement in Germany. Jakob is also the author of radio features for SWR, Deutschlandfunk and ORF, and serves on the advisory board of Mediendienst Integration.

As part of “Berliner Monat der Demokratie”

Beyond Borders

The event is part of the series “Across Borders: Drawing, Tearing Down and Shifting”. Around the 65th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, the series turns its focus to borders in the past and present — in society as well as in everyday life.

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Mon + Wed – Sun | 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Tue | closed

Last admission is at 5.30 pm

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Schlossplatz
10178 Berlin

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Mo – Fri, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.

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Get to know the contributors

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What’s coming up

Borders? Borderless?

Perspectives of the Third and Fourth Generations East

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"100 Zwischenrufe zur deutschen Einheit"

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Directions

Contact

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