Original scientific paper
IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE TODAY: APARTHEID OR CIVIL COHABITATION?
Darko Suvin
; Casella Postale 56, Vle Puccini 903, 55100 Lucca, Italy
Abstract
The essay discusses the orientations for preventing the slide toward apartheid
States. Beginning with the phenomenology of present mass displacements, it
asks: are non-citizens people, and what are the limits of popular sovereignty?
Is freedom possible if a good part of denizens is a partly free group? Five
concatenated axioms are posed: that 1/ the right to hospitality (eventually,
citizenship) is a central human right); 2/ each State – or analogous community
– should give all its denizens the maximum possible of citizen rights; 3/ our
value focus ought to be on immigrant policy and on integration; 4/ the status
of “unfree labourers” refuses the principle of “one person, one vote”; 5/ “no
taxation without representation.” The long-run alternative is wars and terrorism
or civil cohabitation. This would include a foreign economical policy of
“co-development”, and no participation in wars (except in a present aggression
against Europe). If capitalism today condemns a growing majority of humans
to psycho-physical misery and premature death, then we may be facing
apartheid and global civil wars.
Keywords
immigration; apartheid; human and citizen rights; co-development
Hrčak ID:
72017
URI
Publication date:
4.10.2011.
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