The idea behind Exilé Sans Frontières came to life in 2012, yet it took nearly a decade for it to find a home in the shape of a literary magazine. At its heart is a live impulse that sparks a sense of belonging, fosters social justice, and nurtures empathy.

Without an education that opens minds to arts and culture, there can be no bridges of understanding – no mirrors for self-awareness – no sub-layers of language. This may be the most immediate action we can take to build a collective social conscience and address the hurt and injustice taking place around the world.

Words are not mere instruments of communication, just like photographs are not simple snapshots of reality, or paintings a juxtaposition of colorful brushstrokes. Art gives and art demands: by granting us access to the undersurface of the world, it also exhorts its readers, viewers, listeners to open their souls to what is felt.

​The works in Exilé Sans Frontières speak directly from one unconscious to another. A loss of conscious mind is what is gained.

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The Editors
​December 2021

Art    Without    Borders

Exilé Sans Frontières is first and foremost a place for poetry, nonfiction, and visual arts but there are other matters that are important to us and that we hope to extend the conversation to: forced migration, climate, animal ethics, educational psychology, the positive maladjustment and adjustment of the world in general. 
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The links and resources below offer an insight into some of these topics.
​More coming soon ...

Forced Displacement

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
www.unhcr.org/what-we-do.html

The German Institute for International Security Affairs (SWP)
www.swp-berlin.org/en/topics/dossiers/forced-displacement-and-migration

Animal Ethics

​www.animal-ethics.org/

​The Moral Status of Animals
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/

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