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<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Hi,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">First, sorry about
my last report as my email was sent by mistake without being
finished. Of course, my vision isn't only idealistic, I heard about
rapes, didn't see so much women and children as they are protected in
a former vacations camp, pretty well securised. They might be over
400 inside.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Also, refugees are
stucked in the middle of the police on one side and smuggling mafia
on the other side.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Ok, this is the
situation, but my point is that something else appears, something
happends and could be seen as an aletrnative and that's what I wanted
to report. Many researchers are trying to document and report it as
well because it is not the image shown in the media. For me and for
many activists, researchers and NGO, it is important to show that a
camp isn't the only solution and to show to people what could be a
more humanistic answer to this situation.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Then, I only
talked about Calais, not about Grande-Synthe in Dunkerque where what
you depict Johannes is totally true: "people living in the mud
in cold tents<br>
in the winter, on rat infested soggy grounds, 6000
people living without heat, electricity, proper<br>
medical care,
lack of food, children without school, vomiting, ill with diarrhoea;"</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Still, a school
also just opened in Grande Synthe and people should be moved in one
month in caravans and in other more convenient spaces. I am also
supposed to go there to do workshops soon... <br>
<br>
Also, to
answer your question, in Calais I could have been plugged as
electricity was setted up in the school and in the jungle books
library by « Electricity without borders », there are
also solar panels to cover some other needs.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.arvers/posts/10153381893653616?pnref=story">https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.arvers/posts/10153381893653616?pnref=story</a>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">But, when I was in
the school, I didn't plugged my computer as I only used my battery.
Nothing was organized. I was in ths school and 2 teenagers arrived,
who wanted an english class and I took this opportunity to show then
my game engine and use it to give them this english class. I will
spend more time there in the next ten days to see how I can do more
as my aim is to ask them to depict their daily life using a game
engine. As a testimonial of what can be done especially if it is
demolished in two months...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Anyway, what I saw
in the "jungle" is different from the majority of the
camps in EU and along its borders, which are well documented in Close
the camps, a website created by Migreurop
<a href="http://en.closethecamps.org/">http://en.closethecamps.org/</a>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Camp imagery is
quite different from the jungle, where it is more about free will,
ephemeral city, a temporary autonomous zone
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Misery is there I
won't deny it, but there are also human beings, acting on their own
will – Zimako and its new school, Alpha and its art school, afghans
and their restaurants - who build a city and to whom it is possible
also to give something else besides primary needs as food, heat,
etc... it won't change their situation but it will perhaps soften
their daily life?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Also it could be
seen as an alternative or an exemple to what the government is
setting up that only answers to primary needs and on the top of that
responds to a control logic in which camps are the only standard. <br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.5cm;line-height:100%">Isabelle</p>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-08 19:51 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Dominguez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rrdominguez@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">rrdominguez@ucsd.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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Hola Isabelle,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the on the ground report.<br>
<br>
That reminded me of this recent photographic essay of Calais:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://thefunambulist.net/2016/02/04/police-fences-and-containers-a-photographic-report-from-calais-jungle/" target="_blank">http://thefunambulist.net/2016/02/04/police-fences-and-containers-a-photographic-report-from-calais-jungle/</a><br>
<br>
The issues are always about the "security for the community" with
little regard for the "ephemeral" routes of escape and<br>
the imperceptible communities.<br>
<br>
While certainly supporting some human processes the inhuman becomes
the basic response. <br>
<br>
Very best,<br>
Ricardo<br>
<br>
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I am just back from Calais jungle where I spent the weekend as
I want to make machinima workshops there about daily lives in
the jungle. On the sencond day I only succeeded to give an
english lesson through a machinima software to 2 young kurds,
but what I saw there is full of energy, settlement, more
looking like an emerging ephemeral city than a camp. There are
now two schools, two libraries, a disco, many restaurants,
etc.. The governmental answer to that is the will to destroy
this and reemplace the jungle by a camp, closed and securised,
full of white, unhuman containers looking like cattle pen.<br>
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What I also saw made me think to a taz, perh<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-08 3:48 GMT+01:00 Ana Valdés <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agora158@gmail.com" target="_blank">agora158@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">In all my visits to Palestine Damascus Jordan
and Baghdad I met both Muslims Christians and secularized
ppl, "freelance muslims" as much I am a "freelance
catholic". In Damascus I interviewed Khaled Meshal Hamas
political leader at that time the Hamas direction was in
Damascus now they are resettled in Qatar since they don't
support Assad's regime in Syria. Meshal was living as a
refugee among refugees in a poor neighborhood of Damascus.
The creation of the state of Israel created millions of
refugees the difference between the people reaching Europe
today is the Palestinian created refugee camps in all the
countries around Palestine and they were welcomed by Syria
Jordan and Lebanon.<br>
The English writer John Berger, himself living in exile
from his native UK, in a peasant village in the mountains
in France near Switzerland, wrote once: "The 20th century
was the first time in human history the concept of home
dissapeared. The home heimat le pays all aceptions of the
same feeling of belonging to a place to a country they are
shattered now."<br>
Millions are on the move settled and resettled the maps
are being redrawn nobody is home any longer.<br>
When I came to Palestine for first time and told them I
lived in Sweden in exile because I was sent there by the
United Nations directly from jail many of our new friends
laughed and told me they had also being in Israeli jails
at different occasions.<br>
And back in Uruguay I joke with friends and tell them
before you could ask ppl where do you live, have we being
neighbors? Did we go to thr same school?<br>
Now we ask you seem known to me I recognize you in which
jail or military caserne we met?<br>
The jail or the refugee camp risk to become the world's
common denominator <br>
Ana</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Den 8 feb 2016 02:22 skrev "Babak
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Hey Ricardo, all,<br>
<br>
It's true that the numbers related to the current
refugee crisis<br>
surrounding Syria are not as excessive as during the
second world war.<br>
In relative terms, with Europe at about 550 million
inhabitants around<br>
1940 compared to 730 million now, the scope was even
bigger, then.<br>
<br>
Yet, there are also significant differences such that
just looking at<br>
the numbers is not fair to either event. During the
second world war,<br>
Europe itself was in turmoil, whereas surrounding the
Syrian refugee<br>
crisis, the turmoil is wholly happening outside of
Europe's borders.<br>
Second, the differences between Syrian refugees and,
say, the average<br>
Dutchman (which of course doesn't really exist), now, is
probably<br>
bigger, and occurring on a wider scope, than the
differences between,<br>
say, the Czech and, say, Polish middle class during or
close to the<br>
second world war. It's simply easier to reconcile
oneself with others<br>
who are more similar than with those who are more
different. That's<br>
not a matter of being racist, it's human nature. To go
beyond that, to<br>
step over that prejudice, if you will, takes effort and
has to be done<br>
consciously.<br>
<br>
As you suggest, Ricardo, there might be a greater
neo-liberalist plan<br>
to profit from all this, but that also doesn't
automatically mean that<br>
the crisis is fabricated in order to make a profit. It
seems to me<br>
there's a lot of opportunism and incompetence at work.
As well as<br>
convenient negligence by the media, but all these are
other stories.<br>
<br>
But, none of this says anything about what the
not-so-distant future<br>
might bring. Will western Europe's xenophobic flames be
fanned by the<br>
relatively large influx of non-Europeans?<br>
<br>
Babak<br>
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Ricardo Dominguez <<a href="mailto:rrdominguez@ucsd.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:rrdominguez@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">rrdominguez@ucsd.edu</a>>
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> Hola Tod@s and Babak,<br>
><br>
> I look forward to our dialogue about how the
history of "kinopolitics" (the<br>
> politics of movement)<br>
> will re-produce segmentation and segregation or
integration and citizenship<br>
> (Echoes of Rome)?<br>
> Or perhaps some other unexpected social formations
will happen beyond these<br>
> histories<br>
> (my anti-anti-utopain tendencies speaking here).<br>
><br>
> Of course the processes of integration vs.
segregation does seem to depend<br>
> on where the<br>
> movement and flows starts and to lesser degree
where it ends.<br>
><br>
> If you look at numbers of recent flows of
communities into the E.U. starting<br>
> from World War II to the<br>
> present moment the numbers flowing are worth
considering.<br>
><br>
> The movement of migrants, asylum seekers, and
refugees was over 15 million<br>
> between<br>
> 1939 to 1945, while right now Syrians leaving the
wars zones number around<br>
> 4.1 million<br>
> since 2010. One can add a few million more flowing
away from other conflict<br>
> zones north<br>
> to the E.U. and these current numbers are not even
close to reaching the<br>
> numbers of migrants,<br>
> asylum seekers, or refugee that occurred during
WWII:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://newint.org/features/2016/01/01/global-refugee-crisis-the-facts/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://newint.org/features/2016/01/01/global-refugee-crisis-the-facts/</a><br>
><br>
> (The link to an infographic that might be useful to
consider.)<br>
><br>
> So the "crisis" is not about the "numbers"-but
about the social imaginary<br>
> anchored on to<br>
> the bodies that moving that are activating violent
atavistic response<br>
> (racist politics) that<br>
> neo-liberalism(ism) can profits from via private
detention centers and<br>
> prisons and<br>
> corporate controlled border gates.<br>
><br>
> So it is not about the numbers or the facts of
crossing-but the where they<br>
> coming<br>
> from that is the "crisis."<br>
><br>
> Ricardo<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 2/7/16 2:29 AM, Babak Fakhamzadeh wrote:<br>
>><br>
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>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> We've got quite a big topic on our hands,
making it harder to single<br>
>> out a particular angle or narrative. Perhaps
not an unreasonable<br>
>> starting point is the current refugee crisis in
Europe. As Renate in<br>
>> the opening email hints at, Rome was at its
peak when it actively<br>
>> incorporated the peoples, barbarians perhaps,
on their frontiers,<br>
>> Caesar himself extending Roman citizenship to
the Gauls and others.<br>
>><br>
>> Europe has been a continent of immigrants,
virtually all 'native'<br>
>> Europeans originally descending from immigrants
coming in from the<br>
>> Eurasian plains(, with perhaps only the Basques
being the exception).<br>
>> So, in many ways, the recent new arrivals
coming in from the direction<br>
>> of the Middle East are just the latest in a
long line of immigrants.<br>
>> Yet, the negative European backlash is strong.
Perhaps driven by the<br>
>> recent and, also strong, undercurrent of
xenophobia in many European<br>
>> countries, the 'otherness' of the Syrian
arrivals is emphasised and<br>
>> their presence actively resisted.<br>
>><br>
>> Now, I wonder, my question to us on the list,
what are the<br>
>> consequences of the arrival of this sizeable
group of immigrants going<br>
>> to be, for Europe, over the next 5 to, say, 10
years? Will the whole<br>
>> issue simply fizzle out and the immigrants
simply be integrated? Will<br>
>> the EU fall apart? Will some countries secede
from the Union? Will<br>
>> some countries turn into virtual police states?<br>
>> And, why?<br>
>><br>
>> And, related, how are those countries that do
take in larger number of<br>
>> immigrants going to deal with making sure their
integration is not<br>
>> going to be botched in the same way that
Germany, Holland and France<br>
>> botched the integration of specifically Turkish
and Moroccan<br>
>> immigrants in the 1960s and onwards?<br>
>><br>
>> Looking forward to the responses :)<br>
>><br>
>> Babak<br>
>><br>
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