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Raspail, racism, and migration: Implications for radicalization in a polarizing world
- Source :
- Transcultural Psychiatry. 58:616-631
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Jean Raspail’s controversial 1973 novel The camp of the saints predicts mass migration to Europe that will destroy European civilization. Decades later, the book has accurately predicted the hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving in Europe annually, prompting a continent-wide crisis. From Lesbos and Lampedusa to the Canary Islands and Calais, no one seems to know how to stem the flow of humanity. Borders are being resurrected, despite Schengen and European Union (EU) agreements, in an effort to control the movement of populations. European governments disagree on how to proceed and some are suggesting that the EU could be torn apart by differing approaches to the problem. But does this have to be the response to the migration crisis? This paper compares the predictions of The camp of the saints to events in Europe today and critiques the book’s conclusions with regard to what is an ancient phenomenon: movements of migrants from surplus to deficit labor settings. The paper will also evaluate the response to migrants in the United States under its populist president, Donald Trump, and will review related issues in other parts of the world: Turkey, Russia, and Canada. Contrary to Raspail’s predictions, world leaders will need to accept what has already become a de facto reality: large scale admission of migrants and refugees to the EU and North America, as full citizens, will be the only realistic way to preserve prosperity in the years to come.
- Subjects :
- Radicalization
Health (social science)
Refugee
media_common.quotation_subject
Racism
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Political science
Humans
media_common.cataloged_instance
030212 general & internal medicine
Western culture
European union
Lampedusa
media_common
Transients and Migrants
Refugees
biology
Calais
biology.organism_classification
United States
030227 psychiatry
Europe
Psychiatry and Mental health
Spain
Political economy
Prosperity
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14617471 and 13634615
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transcultural Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8c1c9382d84e703fa014c982bcb01142