To live in Europe in the early twenty-first century is to daily witness governments and the police forces that act at their behest violating the rights of men, women, and children hailing from the “South.” In large part, this violence is perpetrated in the name of a “migratory crisis.” Politicians and large swaths of the media insist that the “old continent” is bursting at the seams with “illegal” or “irregular” migrants whose presence threatens its economic and demographic equilibrium (Beauchemin and Ichou 2016: 15). These claims are belied by reality. From Denmark to Germany, Spain, and beyond, immigration numbers have decreased in recent years (IOM 2020: 38) and, with them, as in the United States, prospects for economic growth (Goolsbee 2019). Most European countries are in need of foreign influx to fill jobs, counteract falling birth rates, increase tax bases required to shore up...
Anti-Pathos
Dominique Malaquais is a senior researcher at Institut des Mondes Africains (CNRS, Paris). Her work addresses intersections between contemporary urban cultures and political and economic violence in the Capitalocene. She is the author of several books and numerous articles, notably on contemporary arts and political engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon. With Kadiatou Diallo, she is cofounder of the experimental curatorial platform SPARCK (Space for Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge). [email protected]
Dominique Malaquais is a senior researcher at Institut des Mondes Africains (CNRS, Paris). Her work addresses intersections between contemporary urban cultures and political and economic violence in the Capitalocene. She is the author of several books and numerous articles, notably on contemporary arts and political engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon. With Kadiatou Diallo, she is cofounder of the experimental curatorial platform SPARCK (Space for Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge). [email protected]
Dominique Malaquais; Anti-Pathos. African Arts 2020; 53 (3): 1–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00532
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