World Refugee Day :Down with borders!!

World Refugee Day, sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is today and is a time to reflect upon the very comfortable and stable lifestyle that most people able to see this are blessed to have in comparison to those on the run, and more importantly to focus on the pain, suffering and injustice which plagues the world and creates at least 30 million refugees (and millions upon millions more internally displaced). Give what you can, even if it is just a few dollars, pounds, yen, rupee whatever...

Most are very careful to separate immigration from refugees, if only to spare refugees the kind of stigma that some immigrants face upon arrival in their new home. Refugees are protected under international law, although determining who is under those protections often seems to quite difficult for receiving countries. Meanwhile economic migrants face extreme hardship if they are without the proper documentation, forced to live in fear, scapegoated by society for any social or economic woe.

The only real solution of course is a fundamental transformation of the way that human beings organise themselves and their economy. Under a democratically planned economy, there would be enough to satisfy the needs of all, and there would be no economic pressure to move from richer to poorer countries, it would simply be a case of personal preference where one lives. National borders only divide the working class and help distract us from our true enemy: the capitalists and politicians who run the world. So NO to immigration controls, NO to the small confines of the nation state, and N0 to the victimisation of migrants, whatever their status.

Libellés : Droits, Pauvreté et développement

par Borges à 10:05

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