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.

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

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