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Tag Archives: migration
Migrants as border rebels
… we actually live in a world in which human beings as such have ceased to exist for quite a while; since society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed; … Continue reading
Migration: The freedom and death of bare life
Hannah Arendt once spoke of the phenomenon of mass refugee migration in the wake of the first world war as a testimony to the limits of any politics of human rights. Stripped of nationality, stateless, the refugee migrant embodies the … Continue reading
Borderland images: Between Melilla and Morocco
Borders striate land, dividing, segregating, displacing. As instruments of sovereignty, they are essential to delineating the exception that defines political power. As instruments for fixing the flows of labour, they enable exploitation. For those who refuse both, movement, migration, is … Continue reading
Scenes from the class struggle in spain: Evictions and deportations … and resistance
The State employs whatever means available to it to protect the free flow capital. The flow of capital however requires restricting the movement of people, such that unequal possibilities of economic development, or exploitation, are assured. The eviction of squatters … Continue reading
Morocco: Racist Attacks in Boukhalef
… totalitarianism makes people superfluous as human beings. Hannah Arendt Originally posted on No Borders Morocco. The violence in Boukhalef, a quarter of Tangier in the North of Morocco, has reached a new dimension. Friday night, the 29th of August, … Continue reading
Into the Fire
The state of exception is not a dictatorship, but a space devoid of law. Giorgio Agamben Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece, by Guy Smallman and Kate Mara, chronicles the plight of immigrants in Greece. But … Continue reading
In solidarity …
The following letter, addressed to EU authorities, is in response to the increasing Moroccan state persecution of sub-Saharan african acitivists, working to defend the rights, interests and desires of sub-Saharan migrants. The letter is posted at http://openlettereu.blogspot.com/, where a petition and … Continue reading
Reelnews reports: “It’s still like being in a war zone – Immigrants in Greece”
The state governs through division and exclusion. It is an identity constructing machine that establishes the border between those who belong and those who do not. For those who fall outside its’ rule, outside of the rule of all states, … Continue reading
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Each person is il-legal: Let us open the doors to all!
The video images and photographs of waves of syrian and other refugees moving through europe, and of those who are abandoned, beaten, raped, arrested and/or killed, that pass across the screens and fill the pages of “news” media re-enact horrors … Continue reading →