The riots in African countries bordering the mare nostrum marked the beginning of 2011. A month was enough to young Tunisian and Egyptian to get rid of dictators who ruled undisturbed for decades (since 1981 Mubarak, Ben Ali since 1987). And the wave did not stop, but had spread to Libya - the friend with the Gaddafi regime that is determined to sell life dearly - in Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria.
The Middle East is moving. The echo of voices from across the Mediterranean has arrived in Italy provoking mixed reactions: on the one hand we have had expressions of solidarity of the North Africans and Egyptians on our territory, on the other we had the full deployment of the alarmist rhetoric securitarian-, trademark of the government (followed closely dall'inconsistente parliamentary opposition, as usual, instead of chasing the right to propose other).
The Minister of the Interior (or rather of Fear) is discovered European and cries for help the Union to "stop the invasion" and strengthen the instruments of military control over the southern border of the continent through additional funding Frontex ( The European Agency for the Management of International Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the EU was born in 2005).
One of the main reasons that bound the North African regimes with democratic governments in Europe was just the brakes that they could put an immigration (each half is lawful, see a man on earth documentarioCome Andrea Segre, Dagmawi Yimer, Riccardo Biadene) in what is a real process of "outsourcing" of the European frontier.
And the "dirty" work. Those who today are called dictators - but until last year, heads of state were friends of the West - the weight of the delicate strategic balance of the whole Mediterranean area (an example is the Treaty of Friendship signed on 30 Libya-Italy August 2008). These days we are witnessing the arrival of hundreds of children and young people (mostly Tunisian) on the Sicilian coast, while the government is trying to open a contact with Benghazi and the border between Libya and Tunisia to stem departures.
Many of the entrants are unable to continue their journey to France or Germany, a blatant violation of the right of asylum, are crammed in and shut Cie (Centers for identification and expulsion) and are in the paradoxical condition of being imprisoned after they believed to arrive in a country "free." Hence the first riots that are burning the Cie degrees to Modena via Torino.
Meanwhile, Nato considers an attack: the "war democratic" teases always blameless members of the North Atlantic Treaty (just to wipe the memory we think of Kosovo or Afghanistan ...). Today once again the question of mobility (Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna, speaks openly of a "right to flee") is closely intertwined with the practice of democracy and freedom.
While this desire for freedom is its deployment in the struggles against corrupt regimes, on the other is expressed by bringing into play their own bodies and their lives on a boat going up the balance precarious. Then maybe we should try to reinvent the lexicon of democracy in a different order of discourse that speaks of self-determination, right to mobility, global citizenship.
In order not to resign ourselves to the democracy of weapons, walls and racism. And to follow the soul and the body of those in Libya, and throughout the Maghreb and beyond, was at stake. Arnald Sticker - click to enlarge 
The Middle East is moving. The echo of voices from across the Mediterranean has arrived in Italy provoking mixed reactions: on the one hand we have had expressions of solidarity of the North Africans and Egyptians on our territory, on the other we had the full deployment of the alarmist rhetoric securitarian-, trademark of the government (followed closely dall'inconsistente parliamentary opposition, as usual, instead of chasing the right to propose other).
The Minister of the Interior (or rather of Fear) is discovered European and cries for help the Union to "stop the invasion" and strengthen the instruments of military control over the southern border of the continent through additional funding Frontex ( The European Agency for the Management of International Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the EU was born in 2005).
One of the main reasons that bound the North African regimes with democratic governments in Europe was just the brakes that they could put an immigration (each half is lawful, see a man on earth documentarioCome Andrea Segre, Dagmawi Yimer, Riccardo Biadene) in what is a real process of "outsourcing" of the European frontier.
And the "dirty" work. Those who today are called dictators - but until last year, heads of state were friends of the West - the weight of the delicate strategic balance of the whole Mediterranean area (an example is the Treaty of Friendship signed on 30 Libya-Italy August 2008). These days we are witnessing the arrival of hundreds of children and young people (mostly Tunisian) on the Sicilian coast, while the government is trying to open a contact with Benghazi and the border between Libya and Tunisia to stem departures.
Many of the entrants are unable to continue their journey to France or Germany, a blatant violation of the right of asylum, are crammed in and shut Cie (Centers for identification and expulsion) and are in the paradoxical condition of being imprisoned after they believed to arrive in a country "free." Hence the first riots that are burning the Cie degrees to Modena via Torino.
Meanwhile, Nato considers an attack: the "war democratic" teases always blameless members of the North Atlantic Treaty (just to wipe the memory we think of Kosovo or Afghanistan ...). Today once again the question of mobility (Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna, speaks openly of a "right to flee") is closely intertwined with the practice of democracy and freedom.
While this desire for freedom is its deployment in the struggles against corrupt regimes, on the other is expressed by bringing into play their own bodies and their lives on a boat going up the balance precarious. Then maybe we should try to reinvent the lexicon of democracy in a different order of discourse that speaks of self-determination, right to mobility, global citizenship.
In order not to resign ourselves to the democracy of weapons, walls and racism. And to follow the soul and the body of those in Libya, and throughout the Maghreb and beyond, was at stake. Arnald Sticker - click to enlarge
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