border on Thursday, 16 December. This is how you deport human rights. A book of Luke Rastello 
Presentation of the book with the author:
Thursday December 16 at 21 The border around him. This is how you deport human rights.
Rastello A book of Luke. Review by Sandro Chignola for Il Manifesto
On 9 December 2009, the agencies fighting the news of the death of a homeless person in Rome. On the corner of Via Principe Eugenio and Piazza Vittorio is found the lifeless body of an immigrant. His name was Mohammed Ali Muzzafar. But among the migrants and antiracist activists Roman was known as Sher Khan, the Tiger. He founded the UAWA, the Union of Asian workers and his will to live had gone through the entire cycle of struggles of the 90 invisible until then. By Don Luigi di Liegro, founder Caritas, had led the historical occupation of Pantanella in 1991, when three thousand people had procured a place to stay and not die, just cold.
the evening of October 13, 2008, supported by the Social Centers and Gabrio Askatasuna, hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, among them pregnant women and children, occupies the former clinic in Turin San Paolo. After lengthy negotiations, will leave in April 2010. Despite their status requires, to the Geneva Convention, the right to be protected, will be left on their own and, for many of them, the fate will be expulsion.
Between these two events that we find all the parable of the transformation the right to asylum in Italy and Europe, setting off a silent and undeclared war against refugees, the outlines of an overall reorganization of the system of boundaries and ownership of the fundamental law of migration. E 'on a recent book of Luke Rastello (on the border. So you deport human rights, Laterza, 2010, pp. 280, € 16) having reviewed the situation. That
that applicants meet while trying to reach Europe at all is a paradoxical situation: the countries of immigration, which also recognize the Geneva Convention, they tend to work around the Dublin Convention (1990, 2003) which assigns to the state within which the applicant has made various input coming from a state outside the EU competence on the examination of the application, describing it as both a state of residence for the applicant. Moreover, the examination of requests, it is often argued that a restrictive principle claims to verify, foreign nationals fleeing civil wars or objective situations of poverty and violence, the threat of a real risk of persecution or personal does not take into account the evidence of poverty and hunger from which the migrant is on the run. It's still not enough: the ramparts of Europe are finally defended the outsourcing of the control that eliminate, not even making it formally, the Geneva Convention, directing the rejection of migrants, and therefore of the refugees themselves, to countries that do not recognize, like Libya, or giving a "country-buffer ', which in many cases do not stand for efficiency or transparency, verification of the existence of the requirements for the recognition of the right of asylum.
The much more interesting part of the book is that reconstructs Rastello this mechanism. And in particular the way in which it operates the European agency Frontex border outsourcing and erecting control devices well beyond the formal boundaries of the EU.
April 2010 Ilka Laitinen, Director FRONTEX, has had occasion to recall the main task of the European issue in "all countries to assist the return of irregular migrants 'support Italy and Malta in the control of the Strait of Sicily, the main migratory route in the direction of' Europe (at least until the rise of Turkey and Ukraine), work hard towards Tripoli, "to close once and for all routes of trafficking of immigrants."
is to exert constant pressure on the right way of escape - the evocation of 'trafficking', it must be remembered, is a convenient fig leaf with which we hide our eyes to the violence, torture, the horror of the camps and prisons of Libya, Greece, Malta, Tunisia, Mali, Ukraine, Serbia and those of many other countries outside Europe, which is entrusted with European funds, the management of migration and security "virtual border" of the Union - made up of patrols at sea, control over land, the filtering operations at airports, special operations battalion "Rabit" (Rapid Border Intervention Teams), the organization's operations return (more euphemism for the forced expulsion) managed through joint charter flights.
Inspections by exotic marine codenamed Atlantic route are being to the Canary Islands in the Strait of Gibraltar, between Spain, Morocco and Algeria, between Algeria and Sardinia, in the Strait of Sicily, in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, the Black Sea, Baltic Sea. These patrols, if not explicitly assigned to non-European countries with resources, training and European funding - as in the case of the three offshore patrol boats assigned to the Libyans who have recently opened fire on an Italian fishing boat in international waters - represents a relocation and outsourcing of the European legal space, which in turn introflex and thickens, but only for aspects of its constellation concentration camp, at airports or railway stations and maritime stations in major European cities.
reject migrants indiscriminately without the effort to ascertain whether among them there are refugees or asylum seekers; deport alleged in the countries of origin without verifying whether they are really, treating adults and children alike; turn the spotlight on prisons Ganfruda, Kufrah, Tuaisha-Binkeshir, Misratah in Libya, on the 'Guantamanito "of Novadhibou in Mauritania, on many fields in places where they end up locked Saharan border movements of those who escaped death in the desert crossing, turn on bilateral agreements with countries by binding to non-EU agreements on the readmission of expelled migrants from the EU in exchange for economic aid (This is the widespread practice of cooperation between individual European nations and countries such as Albania, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine, but also with Macao, China, Hong Kong, SriLanka, Pakistan prepare dossiers ...); application for entry into the Union with specific reference to border control and illegal immigration and the location of the centers of permanence and identification to be carried out; recruit voluntary organization specializing in assisting migrants and refugees (including all of the IOM and UNHCR) for the purposes of the war dell'invisibilizzazione actually quietly carried out against them, are all tools used to factually that prevent refugees and asylum seekers, indiscriminately treated as illegal immigrants, are able to access rights that the Geneva Convention gives him.
Rastello's book reconstructs in detail the system of 'clandestinizzazione "forced international migration, naming blacks to many holes in the chain which draws another homicidal border of the European Union works, in great detail on official statistics and not daily conduct of the war against migrants. Allows you to see from another point of view, perhaps the most accessible to look sharp, as tracing the steps of the European legal space through standardization of procedures emergency is dealt with in a state of permanent exception of the humanitarian crisis.
And yet one wonders if the angle of approach chosen, the right of asylum, is the most appropriate to talk about the current migration regimes. If the speech on the border and border control on outsourcing, is not likely to support the rhetoric in public discourse, consider the migrant as usual into or expelled, suspended between inside and outside, without taking into account the fact that the migrant is in fact in many cases, always already there, so to speak, entered on a tourist visa or a portion flows into fiction, born of foreign parents or illegal for a dismissal or a residence permit or not renewed pending renewal, material presence of live work on a crane sucked into Hell, then the black and precarious.
And again, if the configurations and change the current law (hierarchy of citizenship; informality of action and administrative discretion in relation to the right to stay, denationalization, desovranizzazione, decostituzionalizzazione codes and standards that define material movement of a space European transnational legal not only because of its reach out and extend her outside of Europe and his work with mechanisms and devices imported from elsewhere, so in labor law or contracts, for example ...) can be described in relation to the contemporary migrations, referring to the Geneva Convention rejected or betrayed.
The asylum seeker is not an illegal immigrant: this is the distinction that guides the work of Rastello. Illegal immigrants are those who produce the global legal space as such, it would perhaps be worth remembering. That vast part of humanity from the great machine of accumulation invisibilizzata global ritrascrive continuously the difference between the North and the many many South. And that works, works of drawing areas except, of looting perimeters, areas where stabilization dual employment schemes.
Escape in front of this machine is certainly possible and just. To think that she may grant asylum outside of it, however, maybe just totally illusory.
[Monday, November 22, 2010]
