Dear all,
we would like to share some reflections concerning the latest European migration policies.
I hope this could interest you,
in solidarity
Paola
On the border of wage. The real movement and the democratic dilemma
This humanitarian outburst and the proposal of suspending for two years the Schengen agreement on free movement are two faces of the same process. It is not the «end of Schengen», but its continuation by other means: an overall institutionalization of labour hierarchies aiming to govern the real movement that is radically transforming the European material constitution and institutional arrangement. To be up to this real movement means to politicize the refusal of war, of the regime of wage and of the government of mobility that millions of men and women express everyday by challenging the borders. It is necessary to create the conditions for a political centralization that does not simply coordinate the existing experiences of activism, but also turns the massive presence of migrants into a force able to catalyse the refusal of oppression and exploitation experienced by precarious, migrant and industrial workers within the enlarged space of Europe. The global movement of migrants cannot be reduced to a small local toy, much less a local toy for electoral games in which migrants cannot even take part…read more.