The French street violence in the afternoon of a tragic death is a reflection of a post colonial reality which is reflected in its football team to the working classes. Large immigrant populations whether transient or citizens or multigenerational are the shadow of a global grid called empire from Tunis to Hanoi to Dakar to Pondicherry. Taxes are paid, work to operate the system as European white populations get older and the birth rates do not match.
Through the power of Berber Rai Music of Rached Taha and Cheb Mami – the structural alienation of the Maghrebis are felt in the tunes, especially Ya Rayyah and Khalid’s 1996 classic, Oran Marseille, a tune of transnational belonging. The suburbs don’t erupt without a reason, and migration as policy is imperative for many nations. The College De France recently held a conference on migration and the role of migrants in the economy of France either through labour, skill or taxes.
Race, Slavery and Colonialism are entangled and persist in subtler formations in capitalist societies because there is a neat business model. Sometimes the model breaches it’s safety valves. May be take migration research seriously into policy action for once?
Change Thinker 