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Stephen Smith: “Every migrant who leaves Africa reinforces a sense of collective failure”

2022-11-27T20:20:47.753Z


MAIN INTERVIEW - The professor of African studies at Duke University in the United States, author of The Rush to Europe (Grasset), sees in the Ocean Viking affair an exemplary episode in the war of religions between “sans-frontierisme” and “iron curtain”.


LE FIGARO.

- What do you think about the Ocean Viking

ship case?

?

Stephen SMITH.

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A feeling of frustration, due to the programmed repetition of a topic that leads to nothing.

Each time, the controversy ignites like tinder, the "sans-frontiérisme" stands up against the "curtain-de-ferisme" as if we had gone back to the wars of Religion.

Then nothing.

It was just a heat stroke.

What is at stake is obviously not 230 more or less refugees in Europe.

The point is to show your colors, count your troops and close ranks against a necessarily infamous enemy.

It is totem and taboo.

Everything is done so that a compromise - a migration policy, the result of deliberation and subject to revision - is not possible.

On both sides, we prefer the magnifying glass effect to the dashboard.

So we are not moving forward.

For example, we are not renegotiating the Dublin regulation, which stipulates that the asylum application must be processed by the country where the applicant has…

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