Patrizia Panarello

MIGRANT IDENTITIES.

Being part and parcel of the world which counts. The fact that we all can either attend this seminar or not makes us aware at least of one of the predominant ways in which the world is divided: whether we have drinking water, food, adequate medicines or not, whether we can read and write or not, whether we can plug into public education or not. Though the divide can be drawn according to several parameters, it is to be remarked that we are part and parcel of that part of the world which benefits from a series of privileges and, furthermore, we represents that part of the world which has never been in the unpleasant position of those who have always lived on the borderland of society,systematically shut out of every majority. This is because we, the white Western Europeans – according to the definition used by Ryszard Kapuściński, a Polish writer and journalist– are the rule, that is we are that part and parcel of the world which isauthorized to speak for itself and for the others. Differently from who has no voice and cannot make history, we are not compelled to live in a world which does not belong to us and to which we feel we do not belong: this is one of the fundamental differences existing between the privileged and the damned ones of the world, just to mention a renowned passage by Fanon, a Martinican psychiatrist, writer and philosopher.

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