L’Europe, Ceuta, Melilla
A propos recent and earlier discussions on the coupling of work and rights, and specifically work as a condition of legal status, a rough re-translation of the intro to Raúl Sánchez’s “L’Europe, Ceuta, Melilla: la perspective des camps” from the most recent Multitudes:
Confederated Europe pushes its borders back toward the south and entrusts their management (repression, emprisonment, deportation) to the countries which border it, as we have recently seen in Morocco, at the Spanish colonial enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Migrants are treated like a natural disaster, political leaders rival each other in their racism, and the internal border between nationals and migrants in the labor market remains secure (the link between residency papers and work permits feeds a neo-slave economy). [Emphasis added]
Obviously, this is something of what I mean to point toward in describing the contract as the internal border, but I’m not sure about his subsequent insistence on the need for “effective democratic countervailing powers” or “new” rights but, then, reading French is such a slow process for me, I might well be missing some nuances or more. This Multitudes edition, btw, is on ‘institutional racism’, and some other stuff, including some pieces which I’m sure others can translate faster than I: Moulier-Boutang, Stengers, Lazzarato, more.
I woke up to this today, before I could get to wash my face.
New York University’s Republican Club has organized a creative little fantasy game. Imagine if… The playground chosen is a bit too public though, Washington Square Park. It goes like this:
Let’s gather at the Washington Square, all of us, the racist types, put a sign on one of us that says “illegal immigrant” and then scatter in the park to hunt him/her down!
Exciting isn’t it? Nothing is told though about the ritual that will take place once the scapegoat is captured. Reminds me of Lord of the Flies.
More blatantly, they call this “stimulating a dialogue on “illegal” immigration”.
some uses of public space must be illegal, no?
pomegranade [February 24, 2007 @ 12:27 am]
American lynching as sport, frathouse style - but maybe they’re just enjoying that pogrom atmosphere that’s about. Maybe someone should call in these people.
Btw, this film is quite something (via Nicholas Senn).
s0metim3s [February 24, 2007 @ 12:40 am]
If we’re lucky it will be precisely Lord of the Flies - they’ll get overexcited and too wrapped up in the roleplay and brutalize one of their own for once, then some of them go to prison, others to therapy, and there’s a few less active racists in the world prosecuting their fantasy case of being wronged, then some liberal film maker makes a bucket of money dramatizing it onscreen.
Nate [March 2, 2007 @ 3:08 am]