On June 20th, while some celebrate World Refugee Day (why not!), Josefa would like to remind us that, according to its vision and experience at the Josefa House, since 2015, in Brussels, we shouldn’t segregate, exclude, even with the best of intentions.
Inhabited by my migration, I don't let myself be fooled by those who try to take over my "identity", giving me some migratory attribute such as "he is a migrant" or "he is a refugee" without even consulting me beforehand to find out what I think about it…
Since 2011, the Josefa Foundation has been striving to share its vision of "All of us, migrants" as the foundation of our Human-History...
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...
Through which lens do I view the migratory phenomenon? With what dispositions and intentions am I affected by the questions raised by our migrations? Moreover, am I still free of my "migrant being" and of my perceptions about our migrations?
Our western society, heady with its successes and impressive technological performances, especially in the fields of biology and health as well as in space research, but closed to anything that would reduce its success and limit its ambitious plans of evolution, had succeeded in getting rid, almost to the point of denying it, or at least neutralizing this witness as cumbersome as inevitable: death…
How can we combine “migration” and “migrations”? In other words, is it still possible, in politics, which too often wants to act in the short term, in a so-called efficient manner, to honour, as in public life, the uniqueness of each journey, of each migration?...
SHIFTS is my first audio documentary and my first project at the Josefa Foundation…
