NARRATIVE OF A DIFFERENT MIGRATION
Two books which are not speaks of generic "migrants" but men and women of flesh and bone. Objects which do not try to hate or pity, but real stories, real stories, ways of life. The Nigerian prostitutes in Turin, collectors of African Rosarno. People to whom one feels a kind of racial hatred or pity just as dangerous. Are subject capable of heroic choices, small stones, large leaps. Like every human being.
tell different stories, names and faces back to entities indistinct. And dignity to objects of pity or contempt. Some books try to tell migrants in three dimensions, s objects capable of making decisions, men and women full of hope and dignity. A series of meetings throughout Italy tell this new look at a structural phenomenon that must be included as soon as possible in its real dynamics.
Each meeting will follow this pattern: it begins with the short film "A Voyage," which tells a typical path followed by an African to arrive in Europe, the end of which the majority of his comrades are dead.
So the book "Quell'africana not even speak good Italian," a journey into the mysterious world of Nigerian prostitution in Italy and black. A novel pparentemente small, politically incorrect button. The world of prostitutes and Maternity, the rules of the Afro-gang, the preachers of the Pentecostal Church, drug trafficking and prostitution. Stories ever told with frowning faces and words of fact, this time narrated a view without filters and without morals. No one could ever socio-anthropological study outline with as much energy this slice of reality, and even restore dignity to strong women, willing to change your life ...
" Africans saved Italy" tells a story of hope born in absolute decay: exploitation, poverty and mafia violence. A reality extr ema redeemed by the revolt for the right to work and to life. The voice of Africa is the only one to stand up strongly against the 'ndrine, and to fear the system. References to the "right to happiness" and the fight against slavery abolitionist indicate an important stage of our and their history.
Instead, foreign migrant workers are still for the politically correct, non-EU vu cumprà or bingo bongo to the racists of the League. They arrive on tramp steamers anc h when I'm on good boats land on our islands even when they are rescued at sea, are part of an invasion even if the numbers are very low. And they are invariably "desperate", even when their life plans and dreams that we will never have. They are "criminals" and bring "degradation" after the heroic - and immediate - rebellions after mafia violence. "They steal the job" even when entire sectors of economies argue otherwise discarded.
Or prostitutes. There are fireflies, little women. You can not talk without embarrassment or giggles sexist. Or in that tone of pity and compassion for the lost woman of save. There is an immediate need for new words, direct voices, different tones.
Editorial terrelibre.org
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