[-empyre-] Welcome to February 2016: Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee? The Numbers Now and The Number Then

[Ana Valdés]

I start to feel as a privileged refugee :( I was sent by United Nations to
Sweden after four years jail because our military disliked the idea to let
young rebellious ppl as me stay in the country.
I cane to Sweden and after four months of Swedish studies I was able to get
a job and to rent a flat.
At that time Sweden received 10000 refugees per year nothing to compare
with the flow of today.
We were young Western refugees and didn't challenge the values of the
mainstream society as the Muslim do today.
The West haw been colonizing the world for centuries and plundering and
sacking lands and wealth obliterating civilizations.
It's time for the West to deal with the consequences.
Ana
Den 9 feb 2016 17:10 skrev "helen varley jamieson" <
helen at creative-catalyst.com>:

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> i came across this article recently:
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> http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee-camps-cities-of-tomorrow-killian-kleinschmidt-interview-humanitarian-aid-expert/
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> apparently the average stay in a refugee camp is 17 years; there must be
> all kinds of social structures within the camps. why would the government
> want to destroy the initiatives that people have created at calais - surely
> it would be better to support them?
>
> On 8/02/16 12:52 23PM, Babak Fakhamzadeh wrote:
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> Fascinating!
> This sounds quite a bit like the descriptions of refugee camps in, for
> example, the western DRC, as a consequence of the long conflict there, over
> the last few decades.
> There, though, the lack of regulation meant these camps and the aid that
> came in through the many agencies was heavily abused by well connected
> individuals operating either as an effective mafia, or as local branches of
> the insurgents that were fighting in one of the nearby conflicts.
> The drive for self organization is only normal, but the lack of structure
> also opens the way for manipulation and control. Did you see, or are you
> aware of, the negative aspects of this Calais jungle? What shape did it
> take?
>
> On Monday, February 8, 2016, isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>> What I also saw made me think to a taz, perh
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>> [image:
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
>> <http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif>
>> Isabelle Arvers
>> Curator and art critic
>> +33 661 998 386
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com
>> Director of Kareron
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>> twitter: @zabarvers
>> youtube.com/zabarvers
>> Skype ID: zabarvers
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>> 2016-02-08 3:48 GMT+01:00 Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com>:
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>>> 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.
>>> 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."
>>> Millions are on the move settled and resettled the maps are being
>>> redrawn nobody is home any longer.
>>> 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.
>>> 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?
>>> Now we ask you seem known to me I recognize you in which jail or
>>> military caserne we met?
>>> The jail or the refugee camp risk to become the world's common
>>> denominator
>>> Ana
>>>
>>>
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> helen varley jamieson
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