Is migration a crime?
Is migration a crime? or viewed from another angle: are migrants criminals?
Some countries, mostly in Western Europe, officially (or officiously) maintain this line of policy. Mainly because migrant workers originate from poor countries, and, (according to a right wing hardline leader in Italy), poverty breeds criminality. This is actually stated by a right wing politician in Italy, publicly... in newspaper and in TV.
I most vehemently say they are wrong! In the first place, these countries are ex-colonialists. Imperialist if you please. They came to the less powerful countries, conquered them by force of arms and madethem colonies to rob them of their natural wealth and when the time for them to leave came because colonialism has became obsolete, they left the country economically ruined and politically chaotic. These countries were given false independence. False because through the so called globalization, they again were subjugated by the neo-colonialism. The people are impoverished and hungry.
To scape this situation, many migrated. And they come to the land that caused the misery in their homelands. They migrated to the land of the imperialists to seek refuge from poverty and hunger'
Now, again the question: is migration a crime, or the migrants criminals?
The answer is a big NO!!! They are not criminals- they instead, are refugees. Refugees from poverty. Refugees from hunger.
The criminals arre those who caused the misery in their homelands. The giant multinationals of their former colonizers who came back to exploit the poverty and the cheap labor with their deregulation of labor and commercial policies, their contractualization that robbed whatever rights the workers were enjoying pushing them further to poverty. The criminals are those politicians, compradors and big landlords who collaborated with the neo-colonialsists and imperialists.
This is the true situation. Do not ne misled by the soapsudded and sugar-coated propaganda by the imperialist. We, migrant workers must unite and struggle for what really is ours: the right to scape from misery, and for our human dignity.
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