I am pasting an 'abridged version' of one of Damodar Prasad's earlier mails at the bottom.
Immigration rights is one notion which will expose traditional left's conformist ideas. If we look back into the rich tradition of left thinking itself,it could be found that thinkers like Hanna Arendt dealt the issue out of own experience. Protesters in Chengara are " contained within the polis as its interiorised outside. Arendt imagines the stateless primarily through the figure of the refugee. Let me quote Arendt : "Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away ( which can happpen in many other situations), but that it excluded a certain category of people even from the possibility of fighting for freedom-- a fight possible under tyrrany, and even under desperate conditions of modern terror ( butt not under any conditions of concentration --camp life) " --cited in "Who Sings The Nation-State?" judith butler & gayatri chakravorty spivak. Now, Prasad's take: "1. Go to any anti-minorities web site and also the stated position of Denmark racists is that the migrants coming to Denmark and similar states are making the minorities extremist. Since they dont know each other and out of solitude they tend to consolidate on a single idenity. This is neo-fascism of Denmark, France and Berlusconi of Italy. The history of social and politcal migartion and how it changed the politcal process depsite severe onslaughts is known to anyone with a miminum sense of history and reading of Fanon and others. History is replete with incidents of people out of poverty, denial of citizenship, seeking poltical and social assylum, and within domstic situation people are moving to new locations beasue of social strife, evictions out of large scale developmental projects and how the neo-fasicts resists the refugees as migrants by assault. " -- Dileep R I thuravoor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
