“We must leave the royal road to immigration policy”

2024-09-11 09:30:08

Ln July 7, the electorate of the Republican front blocked the National Pain (RN) from gaining power. If the rise of fear of a far-right government was temporarily ruled out, the questions that convinced millions of French people to vote for the RN did not disappear at the end of the election.

This is especially the case of migration, the historical war horse of the RN, which will continue to entertain the communities, to work on the representatives, to provoke anger after each ship is wrecked on the shores of the Mediterranean or the Channel, as again on September 3, to spread incomprehension, even anger, of those who no longer see in the political offer or action good solutions to manage a phenomenon that is still centuries old.

For many years, the issue of migration has been addressed by the exclusiveness of the sovereign power: that is, it takes the national border as its basis, the Minister of the Interior as its driver, issuing residence permits for the application, control and violence for the way and the outside for the appearance.

However, this sovereign approach set according to the management logic of spaces and people, even of constraint, presents three limits.

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First, it rarely succeeds in achieving the declared results.

After that, he contributed to the creation of a negative image of aliens. The latter has been reduced, especially in the history of the right political parties, to a “threat to public order” from which we must protect ourselves, and we are no longer considered in its humanity.

Finally, it reveals the reality and complexity of migrations which are part of a journey, past history and future, more than an administrative and social activity.

Facing adversity

In practice, asylum seekers, refugees, foreign workers and students, spouses and children of foreigners face political, administrative and social difficulties that are the only appropriate social support, when organized by The state, communities and civil society, can prevent.

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Also, to provide answers to the public’s questions and fears about immigration, change the way we look at foreigners, respond to future challenges, improve the progress of women, men and children who are willingly or unknowingly involved in steel -migrants, republican institutions must start a Copernican revolution.