Solo voy con mi pena
I'm alone with my pain
Sola is my conviction
Seule ma condamnation will
Running is my destiny
Courir est mon destin
To circumvent
law Pour me de la loi runny
Lost in the heart
Perdu dans le coeur
De
Babylon the great
D e la grande Babylone
I say the clandestine
On m'appelle clandestin you
paper for not wearing
Car je pas de papiers n'Ai
Pa 'a city in northern
Vers une ville du nord
I went to work
Je suis allé travailler
the Deje Mi vida
I left my life
Between Ceuta and Gibraltar
Between Ceuta and Gibraltar
Soy una raya in el mar
I'm a line in the sea
Fantasma in la ciudad
Ghost in Town
Mi vida will prohibida
My life is prohibited
Dice la autoridad
Say authorities
Solo voy con mi pena
I'm alone with my pain
Sola will mi condena
Only my condemnation will
Correr es mi destino
Running is my destiny
burlar Para la ley
To laugh at the law
Perdido en el corazón
Lost in the heart
From the great Babylon
D e the great Babylon
I say the clandestine
On m'appelle clandestin you
I am the bankruptcy law
Je suis hors la loi you
Mano Negra illegal
L to main noire clandestine
clandestine Peruvian
Peruvian clandestin
Africano clandestino
African Underground
Marijuana ilegal
marijuana illegal
Solo voy con mi pena
I'm alone with my pain
Sola will mi condena
Only my condemnation will
Running is my destiny
Courir est mon destin
To circumvent the law
Pour me de la loi runny
Lost in the heart
Perdu dans le coeur
De la grande Babylon
D e la grande Babylone
I say the clandestine
On m'appelle clandestin you
paper for not wearing
Car n'Ai je pas de papiers
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Manu Chao: the migrant world music.
It is probably no coincidence that the first successful solo career Manu Chao was "Clandestino" . The former lead singer of Mano Negra , which represents that the heyday of French indie rock of the 90s, the team leader, in 1994, cut all ties with his former comrades, and through much of the world particularly the South American continent which he celebrated the "discovery" by Columbus in 1992, aboard a cargo ship traveling along with the theater group Royal de Luxe. He stayed there a long time and repeatedly. Based in Barcelona , he returned to France to play regularly fill Bercy or the feast of Huma.
Manu Chao walks so on the planet with his musicians, a large barnum more festive and friendly as distilling a spectacular world music, blending rock, reggae, Latin rhythms, totally in harmony with the image of a citizen of the world he returns. Positioning themselves often cons of current entertainment industry , it melts the price of a concert ticket as fast the snow in the sun, and is the companion (promoter, finder, partner) other eclectic artists but looking for the same closeness to the audience as the cast of Royal de Luxe, Amadou and Mariam , or the designer Wozniak found regularly in the "Chained Duck". (1)
Son of Ramon Chao (2) , he knows, as did his father, crossing borders, sitting with his guitar to those who, instead of rhinestones, sequins, and trivia industry music, playing on street corners, roam the wide world in the hope to put their suitcases in a place that announces better futures, or attempt musical and social experiences. (3)
Behind "Clandestino" he sings off-the-law, ghost towns, whose life is prohibited in the eyes of others, recognizes the figure of the migrant came from Souths to win the city Norths under mobilities globalized. Often exploited for the purposes of a political discourse of hate, the immigrant concerns his back the weight of poverty, the inequality between North and South dug over development of globalization, paradoxically, while are killed by border trade, the migrant is the one you hunt, that is pushed, which sought to block the visit although it is known that whole sectors of the economy operate with a workforce of newly arrived Suds more exploitable if it is illegal.
migrations are a complex set of flows that relate to new people.
In 2008, there were 214 million migrants international . (4) If the number of migrants was added, together they constitute the fifth most populous country in the world between Indonesia and Brazil. Now that's something ramble on about the supposed migration tsunami that threatens borders of rich countries. But let's put some things in their place.
Migration is a phenomenon of time throughout history: they had since ancient times (Hebrews), were extensions Middle Ages (Barbarian Invasions) or at the dawn of modern times (conquest and colonization of America). (5) Europe was in the nineteenth century the starting point of many strong migration to the New World, let us recall that between 1892 and 1924, 12 million Europeans went to Ellis Island, Golden Gate to the new promised land of the United States. (6)
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| The global migration system. [Source map library documentation French] |
So the important thing might be that all these migrants come poor countries by providing their mobility, their misery dan s s the rich countries. It seems again that this is a red herring.
First, because the majority of migration flows are between neighbors : One thinks, for example, Cote d'Ivoire which hosts the Burkinabe and Malians in the north, or to the South Africa receives the current migration of Southern Africa. There are also migrants from the Horn of Africa is moving towards the oil countries of the Arabian Peninsula or the Colombians to Venezuela and Paraguay to Argentina. The South-South migration affect 60 million people, 61 million migrants make travel south / north, and another 50 million are moving along a north-northeast. (7) Porter on the focal part of the phenomenon (migration south / north) does not return to its geographical reality, space, as varied and complex.
First, because the majority of migration flows are between neighbors : One thinks, for example, Cote d'Ivoire which hosts the Burkinabe and Malians in the north, or to the South Africa receives the current migration of Southern Africa. There are also migrants from the Horn of Africa is moving towards the oil countries of the Arabian Peninsula or the Colombians to Venezuela and Paraguay to Argentina. The South-South migration affect 60 million people, 61 million migrants make travel south / north, and another 50 million are moving along a north-northeast. (7) Porter on the focal part of the phenomenon (migration south / north) does not return to its geographical reality, space, as varied and complex.
Finally, what about the migration equation poverty = ? It is apparently not it totally effective. Indeed, migrants are increasingly urban, they were educated and formed to migrate a nest egg for the trip (which can be used in different ways, ranging from funding for travel to the payment of smugglers). Migration based on all sorts of networks sometimes illegal, sometimes family, sometimes through regional solidarity, between ethnic migrants. Roads mobilities are different, multiple streams, the various networks.
Among these flows, remittances by migrants (rebates) to their countries of origin are important. While northern countries continue to divest itself of the ODA, we consider that today the capital transfers account for about 3 times the amount of what remains of ODA.
mobilities human part of globalization, migration in circuits with multiple extensions, and generating and sharing wealth.
Last point to go against all conventional wisdom, 55% of migrants of the early nineteenth century ... of women, even mothers with children. It moves so fast the stéréotyoée figure of the migrant, young adult male age to sell their labor power. The migrant that must redraw the portrait will be a migrant, what the scope of an open study of gender.
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| discounts in 2007 represent $ 300 billion 3 times the official development assistance. |
mobilities human part of globalization, migration in circuits with multiple extensions, and generating and sharing wealth.
Last point to go against all conventional wisdom, 55% of migrants of the early nineteenth century ... of women, even mothers with children. It moves so fast the stéréotyoée figure of the migrant, young adult male age to sell their labor power. The migrant that must redraw the portrait will be a migrant, what the scope of an open study of gender.
Migration policies between schizophrenics escalating security and economic pragmatism.
What the North does not show a very firm in its policies of migration control? At a time of globalization, it has often and rightly feel that some borders have never been monitored and impassable.
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| The 1300 km long barrier along the Linea is not yet complete. |
The European Union has also updated and strengthened its policy against immigration. By the system Frontex teams border guard composed of members of EU states conduct enhanced surveillance at sensitive locations.
Finally, we can draw some broad guidelines on the subject:
Migration policies contain a political component which may, for example, take the form of cooperation with countries of transit or origin of migrants in an attempt to control and limit the flow closer to its origin. These policies are in place, for example, with the Maghreb countries, the English enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco up checkpoints advanced migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. The system Frontex surveillance Integrated border in another form.
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| 8 km of barbed wire surrounding the enclave of Melilla in Morocco mostly migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. |
Migration policies also have a legislative component which can lead to a tightening of access to refugee status, or hardening of treatment of aliens made illegal in the host country (administrative detention, deportations etc.). Quite simply, it can also decline in the requirement to possess a biometric passport to cross a border.
we have seen, the economic aspect was roughed up lately. Considering that migration found in the unequal distribution of wealth across the planet fertile ground ODA was economic leverage to curb the widening of these inequalities. He is now increasingly abandoned by the North who devote a strongly reduced their budget.
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| A makeshift Overloaded boat of migrants in the Mediterranean. [Source Atlas of the Mediterranean] |
border deaths in Europe
Where are these poor performance while the anti-migrant and anti- Migration has never been so hard?
It is clear that no system is foolproof . The borders of the EU is increasingly difficult to cross to the western Mediterranean, the inflow of migrants moved to the points least monitored the entire region. The former communist countries of Eastern Europe have always been porous enough to redirect the flow. Recently, Greece hit the headlines by launching the construction of a wall on its border with Turkey , (8) region became the major entry point into EU. When you do not pass from one side, trying to pass another, so that some states have specialized in the transit of illegal immigrants, in the case of Guyana, for example.
And finally, the rich countries, if they develop a strong speech against immigration, are well aware that economic constraints and demographic realities can s' face without migrants. These also often get faster the work papers. Manpower cheap, they are for some companies an alternative to offshoring and provide a livelihood for large segments of the economy (construction, catering, personal services). We remember the operation in the United States successfully 1 May 2006 "Great American Boycott" in which legal immigrants and illegal, Latinos often, answered the call by many associations day dead (no purchase, no work, no school) to show their economic and social development. This operation was imitated in France with less success March 1, 2010 under the name "A day without us" .
also not ignore the demographic trends. Northern countries are aging, the immigrant labor allows European countries most affected by the lack of demographic dynamism (Italy, Germany) to bridge the deficit of young adults who weighed on the labor market.
also not ignore the demographic trends. Northern countries are aging, the immigrant labor allows European countries most affected by the lack of demographic dynamism (Italy, Germany) to bridge the deficit of young adults who weighed on the labor market.
Behind farms and sometimes xenophobic discourse, beyond the barriers and fleets of coastal surveillance, policy is simultaneously the opposite path of openness. Thus, the European Pact on Immigration signed in 2008 recognized that the states of the EU must welcome immigrants. Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (9) calls this posture between schizophrenic handling of opinions electoral purposes and needs to save people from rich countries to their own decay, the rich countries of the world locked into a double discourse which, however, pay a very heavy addition to migrants in the world.
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| The United States-Mexico border wall on the honors migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the border. |
* A big thank you to Iris for the translation!
Notes:
( 1) They publish an album shown under the title "Siberia Could Talk" in 2004.
(2) Ramon Chao, Galician, long time director of RFI Latin America, moved to France in 1956.
(3) Manu Chao is very involved in the project "Colifata" radio broadcasts from a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires.
(5) collections of history, "the big migrastions" presents a panorama trSE complete. (6) on histgeobox see the article on "American Land" Bruce Springsteen.
(7) Figures from the vector maintenance Catherine Wihtol de Wenden das collections of history on the "great migration".
(8) see possibly section of Rue 89 that evokes the construction of this wall as a result of bullet points to strategies to circumvent the control by migrants.
(9) See the interview given to collections of history, "great migration".
Bibliography, web list:
The Atlas of History, "Atlas of the Mediterranean" , 2010.
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Atlas Global Migration ", Autrement, 2009.
collections of history, "Great Migration" , 2009
Carto, the world maps, "A world without borders" , September-November 2010.
Le Monde Diplomatique, "Atlas" .
The site the International Organization for Migration.
The site CNHI .
The map collection online the diplomatic world.
the Map Library of Sciences Po on migration.
An interview conducted by Aug. Effa with GP about his book "We children of the tradition."
