- Category: Migrations
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Stop! It is more than urgent to stop the use of the term "migrants" without (strong) conscience
Stop! It is more than urgent to stop the use of the term "migrants" without (strong) conscience
How to return to the nobility of the term « migration » is a great question that should haunt each of us.
We live by the eye laid on our present migrations. Intelligence.
We think by the glance directed on our past migrations. Memory.
We hope by the vision of our future migrations. Willingness
We humans are certainly ambivalent, even absurd, beings. What we perceive as a normal development of our being would certainly surprise any neutral observer of life on earth. An alien life form watching us for centuries would probably be as fascinated as shocked by our human species. What this has to do with “migration” can only be understood by tracing the history of human development.
Some furtive glances.
Krakow, the Polish Florence. An ancient city centre, set in a tree-lined garden, itself set with tram tracks. An urban setting, with twirling bells and a few bruised traces of a Jewish presence, old university walls containing the revival of modern thought. An artistic habitat...
When it comes to approaches, indeed in the plural, on the migration issue, there tends to be a lack of differentiation... “migrants, refugees, displaced persons”…
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