CALEM    Shelter

This year again, we organized our Christmas dinner with the migrants of Marseille, in collaboration with David & Jonathan, at the Saint Basile AUP residency, on friday the 23rd of December 2022.

Alieu Jalloh (second part of the interview)

President founder - AUP

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Arriving in Marseille, the main problem is the housing issue. It is very difficult because like, on my arrival here, I slept at the train station for three days. And after that, I was directed to call 115, because you need to struggle if you want an emergency shelter which is supposed to be a basic human right for asylum seekers and refugees. I was fortunate to get housing for one month and after that, it expired. I was out again to the street.

PRIVATE HOUSING – no legal papers, you pay more

So, I spent about five days in the street, and then, I met somebody from Sierra Leone also. His name is Ahmed. He told me that he got some information about a house that is situated at 51 Boulevard Dahdah. If you have money, you can pay and you can have a place to stay without any document or any papers. So like we went there, we contacted somebody that's there; he was the provider of one room and bathroom and a little bit of space to cook. And then he told us that the price was higher from what was said previously, which was 300 Euro. He also said we have to pay in advance before getting in. We paid in advance so we lived in this apartment for two years. That was from February 2019 to the 14th of November 2019.

POLICE EVICTIONS – no proof of payment, no backup if any issue

On the 14^th of November 2019, at 8.00 in the morning, the municipal police of Marseille entered in the building. They said that from today, nobody shall be able to live in this building because it is not secure for us to live in anymore. So you have to go out of this building today and it should be before 2:00. So we thought it was a joke. We were more than 90 people living in this very big building with a lot of apartments. There were people who bought apartment already living there legally. But the police proposed for those people, who are living there legally, to host them in the hotels until they find a house for them. But for us, the Asylum Seekers over there, we rent but we don't have any receipt from the apartment owners...

(end of the interview inch'Allah on the website of AUP)

Sustain the migrants here

CALEM    Institute

NEW RESOURCES
Elaborated by the CALEM Institute
Autumn 2022

Our conference with Zak Ostmane, Algerian journalist and activist, fighting for 10 years against the criminalization of  
homosexality in Algeria:

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Ministry dinner - Shams France 2022

This year again
(September 2022 to May 2023)
The CALEM Institute provides its training, on the basis of renowned scientific research, in particular for progressive imam-es from France, 
Europe and beyond:

Our other publications online here

"Historically, substance use and sexual health have been considered as separate domains, both academically and clinically. However, as research and theoretical models such as minority stress and syndemic theories have demonstrated, substance use and sexual health can be inextricably linked and can have significant cumulative effects on health, well-being, and pleasure. This is especially true for vulnerable and marginalized populations, including sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals and racial and ethnic minority individuals. These communities are often disproportionately affected by higher levels of substance use, community transmission of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and other sexual health conditions. Additionally, these communities may face greater structural barriers when accessing, or trying to access, substance use and sexual health services, such as access to contraception and safer sex provision. New approaches which consider the combined effects of substance use and sexual health within marginalized populations are necessary. Papers, including empirical research and reviews, are invited for this Special Issue. Community-based participatory research and studies adopting an intersectional approach to analyses were particularly welcomed"

CALEM    Cabinet

We have been honored again this year, most often online, to facilitate the blessing of couples, in France and elsewhere. Learn more here

AOZIZ is a network of inclusive houses, founded by two performing arts companies based in Marseille, as well as a research organization in the human sciences. With a particular ability to work with mixed groups of disabled and non-disabled people, discriminated minorities or migrant people, the practices of the body, the arts and intersectionality are at the heart of the AOZIZ project.

Our goal is to promote new intercultural encounters, thus creating a meeting point for diversity and creation, to be together in an alternative way.

To do this, AOZIZ offers a varied program of courses, workshops, conferences and residencies, inviting artists, intellectuals, social leaders and public from all walks of life, to deepen their research and exchange their ideas.

Since 2018, we have been working on various inclusive activities at the start of the summer season, in Marseille. Our network is also present during Prides Marseille, and works every year in close collaboration with the Marseille Festival, alongside migrant associations, health prevention NGOs, and the fight against all discrimination.

AOZIZ is a space for embodied encounters, which will constantly expand its activities. It takes the language of inclusion and makes it exist in bodies. It is a place centered on an optimized practice on the links between people. It makes no judgments about what ideal bodies or identities should be, but rather cultivates aesthetics based on human relationships, from an intersectionally queer perspective.