According to the blog of Italian journalist Gabriele del Grande, Fortress Europe , which
lists the reports in the international press, 19,372 migrants have died since 1988
attempting to enter Europe, including 7,065 just in the Strait of Sicily between Libya,
Egypt, Tunisia, Malta and Italy (dated 12 October 2013). ---- This "structural genocide"
on the borders of Europe at this time reached the heights of hypocrisy when the Italian
government plans to grant citizenship posthumously to the dead and at the same time suing
survivors accused of " illegal immigration "under Italian law called Bossi-Fini. ----
Hypocrisy and the same time both a declaration of war and an act of racist propaganda as
recently emphasized the essayist Santiago Alba Rico:
"? these young adventurers who believe in freedom of movement and the right to a better
life, we told that they will be accepted and integrated into Europe once dead, as dead
bodies swollen by water, and only if they die at the sight of all and enough to not hide
under the carpet. We want you dead. Or to paraphrase an old saying: the only good
immigrant, the only comparable immigrant is a dead immigrant" . An act of racist
propaganda because this idea of reward dead by granting them citizenship "presupposes and
induces the illusion that the Somali, Eritrean and Syrian shipwrecked Lampedusa Syrians
want to be Italian" , which a share is far be certain and also reinforces the vision of a
hierarchy of nations. "In an age where more and more Italians - and Spanish - do not want
to be Italian or Spanish - and leave force their country, the deaths of Lampedusa, the
winners of the treasure hunt nihilist, a false light Italy (or Spain) desirable,
attractive, rich and democratic, the benefits of which would suck millions of people
around the world. "
"It is a lie continues Alba Rico. They do not want to be Italian or Spanish or Greek. They
maintain emotional and cultural ties with great pride, as evidenced remittances to their
countries of origin (or the fact that families are saving money that will allow the
youngest and bravest of his members pay the local mafia and embark for Europe). They want
to be Italian or Spanish or Greek, but they want to have some rights as Italians and
Spaniards and Greeks are losing. They claim the right to come and go and the right to stay
in their homes: to travel and not travel, work, have adventures, learn about other places,
to love others and also their own people. They are not different from us, and they often
have a much harder life, they are also more courageous, more "contractors" have more life
force, are more skilled and less cynical. There may be good reasons - economic and
environmental - to limit travel, but it will begin with the goods and tourists: Europeans
move much that Africans and with a much higher cost. And in all cases, the universal
traffic law, which includes the right not to move and the right of return can not be
applied selectively with ethnic, racial or cultural and even less taxed or prohibited by
criteria force. Whatever the excuses "structural" Europe will never claim to be democratic
and enlightened as the refusal to provide assistance, selecting "slave", the financing of
the concentration camps and the criminalization of mere survival will be the
anthropological normality legal and its people and its laws". ("Lampedusa perseguir a los
vivos premiar a los muertos" Cuartopoder , 12 October 2013, excerpts).
It is indeed a political issue, as shown in the following two texts.
The sinking of the hypocrisy migrants beyond Lampedusa
On October 8, 2013
A few hours after the tragic massacre and new dyed black waters of the Mediterranean, we
talked about political carnage (see below "Migrants: a new political carnage"). And that
we want to continue to talk, after attending the scene of a common morality that not only
can not do anything against institutional racism, but who needs to find its raison d'?tre.
Hypocrisy is the word used by a large part of the institutional left and movement,
outraged by the positions taken by those seeking the Nobel Peace Prize for Lampedusa,
which grant citizenship to the dead while they deny living who declare a national mourning
while in stages part of the public openly expressed racism. This is not a trivial moral
hypocrisy, but a much heavier political hypocrisy. Indifferent to the widespread scandal,
the new guarantor of high Angelino Alfano agreement [*] has worked tirelessly to protect
the controversy quickly Bossi-Fini law. That is the core is behind the political killings
that took place in Lampedusa is the issue of political conflict that began with the skin
of hundreds of men, women and children there . For some, the slogan "abolish the
Bossi-Fini law" means respecting the rights and even introduce greater legal. For us, the
abolition of the Bossi-Fini law means destroying a cog in a specific overall system and
differential operation.
The chronicles an Eritrean migrant, trapped in the reception center for asylum seekers in
Lampedusa, stopped the Integration Minister Cecilia Kyenge to talk to him, not outrageous
and inhumane conditions of the Centre, but how to escape with European standards (Dublin
II) require asylum seekers to reside in the State in which they arrived. This episode
clearly shows that the demand for freedom that migrants express not only faces the risk of
the journey, but a system of internal differentiation within Europe is essential to the
political management of the crisis. Those who see the austerity policies to fight the
first enemy should know that the first way to distinguish between European countries
"virtuous" of those who have to save the landmark in fact unloading on the Mediterranean
Europe and the borders the social costs of global mobility. It is not so much a
discrimination between states, but of a clear hierarchy of operating within the European
Economic and financial space. If Barroso goes to Lampedusa, which is not only a must
before the enormity of the facts gesture, but a way to manage the internal voltage of the
European Union that the movements of migrants only increase.
Faced with this, the scandal is a weak response. It is doubtful to claim an adequate
response to the collection of signatures in support may be reasonable answers but must
leave their success to people with good intentions. On the other hand, distinguish between
migrants and refugees, and to open a humanitarian corridor these means open an impasse
over the fierce stranglehold exercised by the Bossi-Fini law , especially in conditions of
economic crisis. Equally questionable is the reaction of those who - like the Confederate
unions, which have strengthened in Bologna found in mourning unit - took to the streets to
feel sorry for the dead migrants after ignoring those living, those who recent years have
gone on strike and are continually took to the streets against the Bossi-Fini law and the
conditions for them to continue their life in Italy and Europe after conquering freedom in
Libya and Tunisia. Those - not only in the institutional left - continue to talk about
asylum and the offense of failing hiding the link between the residence permit and the
work contract or forgetting demand a level of income and appropriate fee to renew,
reproduce the empty rhetoric of a system of government immigration requires to enter as
"illegal" and needed to live as "irregular" if not accepted certain working conditions
down or if you do not immediately find work. The condition of migrants is not exhausted in
the sea of death of Lampedusa , but through hierarchies and conditions and conditions
imposed by the state and work. Against this condition, migrants have fought and continue
to fight.
The struggles of migrants can be found no resolution, but they are a reality that can no
longer be ignored by the staging of a used moralism or by starting to call up those
migrants Eve were called laborers or porters, with the idea of joining forces leaving
aside differences. Faced with globalization, smooth and homogeneous world is that markets,
not the men and women separated and marked by differences of class, color, sex and legal.
This is not a moral issue, but precisely policy. Think today get victories, symbolic and
real, without questioning the regime of separation, which, striking migrants, strikes us
all, and without understanding the European and global dimension of migrant struggles
constantly put to agenda is an illusion that we can not afford to grow.
Coordinamento Migranti (Bologna)
on October 8, 2013
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[*]'s Note: Head of Berlusconi's party, Minister of Interior of the government "broad
agreement" today, it is celebrated today by the press and the European governments for
recently released his mentor, preventing Italy return to the polls and ensuring
institutional "stability" in the functioning of the state and its "reforms".
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Migrants: a new political carnage
On October 3, 2013
Hundreds of dead migrant massacre which took place today in addition to thousands of
deaths in the last twenty years. Despite the variation in the figures, these massacres
have become the norm for Europe Schengen, while celebrating the freedom of movement inside
and with a harmonized system of residence permits was discharged on countries bordering
the task to "filter" the movements of migrants. In addition, the position expressed by the
Council of Europe a few hours before this umpteenth killing shows the true face of the
Schengen area, in substance, Italy is accused of being too soft and indecisive in the
processing of incoming migrants on its soil. A speech that will surely please the right
European parties and maybe even Italian President Napolitano, who, intoxicated by the fact
that Italy has a government also claims to govern foreign shores. The father of the law
that paved the way for the Bossi-Fini [*] has not denied, as the Northern League with its
usual racism or M5S [Movement 5 stars], which after opposed to jus soli [jus soli],
reaffirmed his state thought by invoking the intervention of the European Union to ensure
border control.
Far from the image of a "Fortress Europe" besieged the Schengen system, which includes the
armed force Frontex meant for almost all the inhabitants of the planet unable to reach
Europe in a way legal. Even the possibility of rescue "usually" Gilligan is prevented by
the crime of illegal immigration. It was logical that this will lead to any attempt to
reach the EU is becoming increasingly dangerous. It was also logical that in a globalized
world, the outbreak of revolutions and conflicts have increased the desire for freedom and
produce more movements migrants have the right to exercise the freedom of movement they
conquered, as occurred after the Tunisian revolution, and vote with their feet against the
wars that do not concern them, as happened in Libya and now in Syria.
Against any attempt to regulate this freedom that neither Europe nor Italy realize is that
the movements of migrants do not depend on them. That depends on them, it's all over the
conditions under which migrants move. For this reason, the European countries and the
immigration policies share the responsibility for what happens regularly. It is good that
nobody pays more to the game that would see in Europe a barrier against local barbarities.
Instead, the movement of migrants show that there can be a struggle that is not on a fully
transnational scale. Perhaps there is no solution, as argued by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs Emma Bonino. While abolishing Frontex and implement the ability to freely reach
the Schengen area would make the service performed by the so-called less exclusive
smugglers. In the absence of political will, we are spared the expressions of regret.
If we are certain to find broad agreement in identifying the culprits, this umpteenth
killing pushes us to remember not only the victims, but all migrants who struggle every
day for years and organized against the laws that govern the boundaries of the farm. The
grief and anger that rise up against this latest massacre needed now more than ever, to
recognize that the skin of migrants play a lot more than what is made visible by the
massacres of the sea and the systematic dramatic political and media victimization and
criminalization. He plays the attempt to regulate and govern at the transnational level, a
new geopolitical and movement of the labor force. It has a comprehensive political and
class conflict. In this confrontation, the migrants are an active part. And the others?
If we wind continue to be shocked anew each time, then it will continue like that.
Otherwise, we should at least stop thinking only when migrants die at sea or as carriers
of partial claims, and finally accept the overall political challenge they pose.
Coordinamento Migranti (Bologna)
October 3, 2013
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[*] NdT. Passed in 2002, the Bossi-Fini - Umberto Bossi, leader of the xenophobic party of
the Northern League, and Gianfranco Fini, leader of the National Alliance post-fascists -
was a hardening of reception conditions for migrants in Italy. Institutions quotas based
on the needs of labor, establishing a fingerprint file of foreign asylum seekers, creating
detention centers throughout the country, forced returns of migrants, creating the offense
of illegal immigration ... Determined and passed by the "right" of Berlusconi, it has not
been repealed by the "left" Prodi from 2006.
Translation: XYZ / OCLibertaire
Source: http://coordinamentomigranti.org/
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