[-empyre-] detention vs movement violence

[Ana Valdés]

Johannes it was not only me, the great majority of the Latinamerican
refugees coming to Europe during the 70:s are today relatively integrated
in Europe and many of them come back to South America and are today's
ministers in different socialdemocrats governments.
I speak mostly of Chile and Uruguay.
My point is the clue to absorb refugees was to give them tools to be
selfsufficient to teach them skills necessary to manage the challenges of a
new life, languages, therapy for them surviving jail and torture, family
reunification for them separated from their relatives needing support, a
profession or a work.
The problem is the numbers today all the resources of wealthy welfare
countries as Germany Norway Sweden Danmark Finland and France are strained
to give huge amounts of refugees their bare needs it means shelter medical
support and food it's not enough to grant the refugees a worthy life it's
only a patch for their most immediate needs.
But countries as Greece or Hungary or Serbia are not able to deal with the
huge waves of refugees pouring every day from warzones.
As I wrote in an ocassion here the only ones having huge profits from the
wars are the manufacturers of weapons and the owners of parallel armies as
Blackwater Haliburton Dupont and many others. A way to deal with the
mounting cost of fleeing refugees should be apply big taxes to all
companies dealing with weapons.
Let them pay the consequences of their unethical warmongery.
Ana
Den 10 feb 2016 18:19 skrev "Johannes Birringer" <
Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk>:

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>
>
> what is "kinopolitics"?
>
> just wondering as the term (referring to kino/cinema)? was not clear to me
> when I think Ricardo
> first brought it up...
> unless there is a link here to what, I think, P.Sloterdijk once wrote as a
> critique
> "political kinetics”, kinetic movement of 20th century politics of speed
> and displacement,
> war machines, etc
> -  i think in 1989 he even spoke of a kinetic inferno, but I doubt that at
> the time he
> could anticipate the current refugee migrations and displacements.
>
> thanks for your reply Isabelle, I need more time to reflect, as I think
> my question was really how the "camp" has been used as a metaphor or
> as a symbolic system by philosophers and that is not what we were
> talking about, and my confusion came from a sense of the romantic
> resistance
> I felt you proposed vis à vis governmental / central policy of containment
> (which is not in fact
> quite true for Germany,  I surmise, where regional administrations and
> help organizations
> in a distributed federal landscape need to take often their own
> initiatives for help?); Calais
> and Grande-Synthe at Dunkerque may be dfferent in that respect, but i
> visited facilties in the
> Saarland near a town where I grew up and managing help was done through a
> mix of
> local institutions and mini-NGOs, and provisions for sleep, care, food
> were not
> left to "Jungle" self administration and done cooperatively, I wonder
> actually what
> forms of governance or camp community formation happen under the
> circumstances,
> and how different the anticipations or hopes may be (and Ana, your case
> back then surely
> sounds as if you had been very fortunate).
>
> I wonder whether there would be room here to also look at some of the
> incidents of
> sexual violence, puportedly committed by immigrant asylum seekers staying
> in Germany
> at the time of the criminal offenses (Cologne e.g.), and how such violence
> has been used
> now against migrants by the instrumentalizing political wings and press.
>
>
> regards
> Johannes Birringer
> dap-lab
>
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