When the Minister Eric Besson opened a few months ago a series of heated debates on nationality, based on the question, Asaz unsettling, "what it means to be French?" may have had in mind the forthcoming proposal from his government, shaken like a red rag over the summer to divert attention. Nothing better to replace a summer soap opera to another, bringing out the infamous trilogy, nationality, immigration, insecurity, to forget shenanigans of the heir to L'Oreal and the Minister Woerth, dotting Sarkozy himself.
At the time, of course, the question remained unanswered Besson, and I suspect that the possibility of finding her away by leaps and bounds: in a world increasingly Argentinized, ie, a world where grandparents have come from immigrants and sites other than the planet has become the norm, define what it means to be French, English or German is a puzzle that only those who use the theme with very specific policy objectives seek to build.
said and done, the debate "ideas" about the national just become a bill aimed at removing the French criminals who have obtained the adoption in more or less recent date, in a crackdown that has been launched in recent weeks: the dismantling of Roma camps and expelling its inhabitants to their home countries, Bulgaria and Romania.
The first part of the program poses an agonizing dilemma. Several prominent French to English Italian father or mother have been questioned about themselves (his condition fresh French will not put data at risk, assuming that the supermarket was tempted with some Chocolatito or a Barbie for the baby?) and, more generally, about the relationship between crime and the amount of years between the mission and have to be French. For example, if you steal a car and I am French from the past ten years, I am in better shape than if you steal a kilo of potatoes and I am the last one? It's enough to imagine bringing offenders accountable, seeing what is the most convenient wrongdoing according to the date of obtaining his naturalization papers. For the curious mind, what criminal act as a universal category does not exist. It depends on who commits a crime, taking into account the ethnic and national origin rather than outlaw the crime itself. Not even weighed in the balance of man's personality or circumstance, to use a Sartrean term (and presumably what Sartre would have thought the project), as opposed to triggering event of the year indicated on the label of the document. Both the French-born criminal as the French decision to go to jail, of course, but while the former does not lose its birth, the second devoid of its adoption.
The case of the Roma is even more complicated, if possible. Complicated because of the gypsy life is, since that distant day when their ancestors left a certain region of India to come to Europe, no one knows why, to keep traveling tirelessly to will and choice, but also by necessity (the image free gypsy's Pushkin painted complete with the persecuted gypsy, feared and despised until today), and complicated, from a legal standpoint. To begin, the majority of Roma living in France are of Romanian nationality, which means that they are Europeans. Every European has the right to live and work anywhere in the community. Romanian Gypsies expel consider involves Romanian Gypsies before, that is, based on ethnicity rather than nationality. Moreover, by throwing them all without distinction as criminals block, he falls on deaf ears the presumption of innocence: children born and educated in France are issued due to countries where they have never lived and where they are detested no less indiscriminately. Xenophobia is a compact whole hatred that ignores the nuances.
This became clear to me during the Kosovo war, when I interviewed a group of gypsies who met in medical school in Paris and published a magazine. Intellectuals and activists were trying to work from the West for the sake of Roma. "In the Balkans, there is one thing that can unite the various peoples," he explained, not without humor. The Serbs, Croats and Albanians hate each other, but we hate everyone. " A few years later, the irrational hate, real or feigned, but always orchestrated with a purpose, migrates the West, where only the prevailing hypocrisy prevents use of the graphic so frankly term coined by strongmen fighters of the former Yugoslavia: ethnic cleansing.
praise Tell me who you and tell you who you are. The expulsion of the gypsies in France has been greeted with enthusiasm by the Italian right. The Northern League is happy. Leghista minister praised the idea of \u200b\u200blinking the crime sarkoziana with the public. A This is called "security." But not only in Italy stands as never populist wave, whose workhorse this strange connection between aliens and armed robbery. If the French government has decided to take action populist right at the end of summer, after failing in recent regional elections and in view of the re-election of 2012, because he thought very well. 79 percent of the French, according to Le Figaro, and 62 percent, according to L'Humanité, agree with the force of arms decommissioning. Polls vary, depending on the political trend of the day, but if the Communists speak of such percentage, then the thing is hot.
human rights organizations, socialists and even the United Nations have protested, of course, on both issues, the nationality of offenders and the expulsion of Roma. Can the sacred union of biempensantes oppose the surge that includes other absurdities, such as a ban on the burka in countries where few women put it, or to build mosques? The thing is hot, yes, but not new. The job I have running at this time relates to the expulsion of the Moors from Spain in 1609. You have to see how they look like and how to endure racial hatred, the insults to the English mumbling about Arabs, in Spain at the time, were identical to those that had rained down on the Jews a century ago, before also expel them. Just read a little history for the single word "expulsion" give us goosebumps.
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