PangeaKolektif, which has been working on its establishment since January 2020, announced its establishment at the founding general assembly meeting held in the canton of Fribourg on 12 July 2020.

Founded by immigrants living in Switzerland who migrated for compulsory reasons such as working and earning a living, pursuing an academic career, starting a family, wars, various pressures or born to immigrant parents, PangeaKolektif was established with the aim of becoming an autonomous organisation where immigrants can find solutions to their own problems.

It was inspired by Pangea, the name given to the continents before they were separated. We named ourselves PangeaCollective to say "Let's succeed together and with our collective work".

As PangeaKolektif, we start from the difficulties migrants face as soon as they arrive in a foreign country, and we say that we are not alone in the face of loneliness due to lack of access to information, unfamiliarity with language, discrimination and racism. We aim to strengthen the unity and solidarity of migrants against loneliness, to create sources of experience and knowledge, and to unite personal efforts to find solutions to migrants' problems.

As PangeaKolektif, we are based on democracy and collectivism, and we take our decisions at the General Assembly, which we organise regularly every month with the participation of all our members.

We oppose discrimination based on language, religion and ethnic origin; we defend universal rights and freedoms, scientific and libertarian education, ecological life and society; we adopt transparency and reliability as a principle.

Our working groups:

We carry out our activities and events in the form of group work. We currently have four working groups. The fields of activity of our working groups are as follows.

 

Projects Working Group: Since we will work on a project basis, this group is responsible for collecting, organising, evaluating and presenting project proposals from our members or from outside to the General Assembly.

 

"Knowledge Base" working group: The knowledge and experience that interests us is so scattered that it is almost impossible to know where to find what is sound and useful. We therefore aim to make knowledge and shared experience accessible. The Knowledge Base Working Group also endeavours to meet our need for access to information as migrants.

 

Communication and Content Production Working Group: Organises relations with institutions, institutions and organisations in the field of migration, works with thematic campaigns and produces critical content on migration from the perspective of migration and migrants in our social media accounts.

 

Our art group It carries out cultural and artistic activities with a multicultural understanding of life, adds new richness to the cultures of the countries they have to migrate to with activities that will turn migration into homeland and keep their own popular cultures alive. It creates spaces for cultural encounters between continents disconnected from each other and peoples separated by false borders...

 

Our Concept and Migration Readings Group : Concept and Migration Readings Group is a discussion collective that has come together with the idea that migration should be addressed not only with individual experiences but also with its class, historical and political context. We read and discuss texts on topics such as migration, borders, labour, identity, citizenship; we aim to reconstruct concepts from the perspective of the oppressed and resisters, not states and institutions. Our group, which aims to combine knowledge production with solidarity and common struggle, continues to produce collective evaluation articles and workshops.

Technical Working Group : It aims to bring together the visual and technical language of Pangea Collective with the spirit of our collective struggle. It produces in areas such as video and photo shoots, editing and editing, production and publication of social media content, graphic designs and digital archiving. It aims both to increase the visibility of the collective and to establish our language of struggle with our own tools. Combining solidarity with aesthetics, this group forms the technical pillar of our self-organisation.
 

Migrant Women's Group : The Migrant Women's Group came together to make visible the unique challenges of migration for women and to produce collective responses to these experiences on the basis of solidarity. Against multiple oppressions such as harassment, violence, poverty, care labour and invisibility; we discuss both the personal and the political together and create empowering spaces. This group is the women's front of resistance against patriarchy, border regimes and racism.