| Title | One and Three Knowledges |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Displacement, Art, and Anthropology |
| Contributor | Olga Demetriou(author) |
| Efi Savvides (author) | |
| Akid Hassan (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0417.1.13 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/crossings-migrant-knowledges-migrant-forms/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Olga Demetriou, Efi Savvides, and Akid Hassan |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2025-10-03 |
| Page range | pp. 231–241 |
| Print length | 11 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Olga Demetriou is a social anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Durham Global Security Institute, Durham University. She has written on displacement and borders, and the exclusions created in places mired by legacies of conflict. She is currently working on European refugee regimes and how they produce marginal orders of protection through law (complementary protection), politics (access to citizenship), and space (locations of first reception).
Efi Savvides is an artist based in Nicosia and the founder of Artstudio Laboratories, an educational center for contemporary art and design. Her research explores conditions of exclusion established by government institutions, especially in relation to migrants and refugees in Cyprus. Savvides produces records of excluded life stories that stand as chapters within “minor histories.” This peculiar archiving of actions, events, and facts remains her main artistic goal, while its political awareness works critically in indirect ways.
Akid Hassan is a construction worker, painter and decorator, and artist. He has been a Cypriot citizen since 2020. He was born in al-Hasakah, Syria, and, as a Kurd, has been stateless under Syrian legislation. He moved to Cyprus in the mid-2000s and has lived there since, under different precarious statuses, despite being married to a Cypriot national for part of that time and the parent of a second Cypriot national. Having been refused Cypriot nationality along with his siblings and parents, he staged a hunger strike in 2017 which lasted for sixty-seven days and received attention and support by local human rights organizations and the UNHCR. He was granted citizenship in February 2020.