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”…
At a time when some in Europe are appropriating the political field and the media with "discriminatory comments" on "migrants", some men and women express themselves differently.
You’d think that diplomats were bored when there was no migration. What were our representatives abroad doing before the migration era? Some would say, however, that migration is a human matter, from time immemorial, since man is man. Man is a migrant, in migration, by nature. It’s ontological. Migrating is simply living, that’s what we say at Josefa…
To date, the news in the Middle East, the influx of migrants on European, especially Italian, shores, and in Calais, the growing diversity in the population of European cities, like Brussels, these are situations, among many others, that call for a change in our perception of migration and migration flows, particularly in Europe...
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