{"id":8253,"date":"2022-01-02T17:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/opinion-superhumans-scapegoats-and-the-far-right-busting-the-myth-of-europes-migrant-crisis"},"modified":"2022-01-02T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:01:38","slug":"opinion-superhumans-scapegoats-and-the-far-right-busting-the-myth-of-europes-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/opinion-superhumans-scapegoats-and-the-far-right-busting-the-myth-of-europes-migrant-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Superhumans, Scapegoats and the Far Right: Busting the Myth of Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Migration is not a crisis unless we are willing to call most of human history a crisis, from Abraham onwards. Casting migration in a hostile light is still one of the most effective propaganda instruments of extremists on the far right
\nOf all the privileges that exist, the nation-state privilege is probably the most important, yet it is by far the privilege we talk about least.<\/p>\n

The answer to the question of where you were born, and where you are resident, is decisive for your access to medical care and consumer goods, life expectancy and mobility. It is still better to be a half-Muslim, half-Jewish, Black, non-heterosexual, disabled resident of Tilburg, wool capital of The Netherlands, than a member of the middle class in, say, Helmand province in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. Migration is not a crisis unless we are willing to call most of human history a crisis, from Abraham onwards. Casting migration in a hostile light is still one of the most effective propaganda instruments of extremists on the far right Of all the privileges that exist, the nation-state privilege is probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[2355,2361,260,3753,3752],"class_list":["post-8253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-superhumans"],"yoast_head":"\nOpinion | Superhumans, Scapegoats and the Far Right: Busting the Myth of Europe's 'Migrant Crisis' - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Migration is not a crisis unless we are willing to call most of human history a crisis, from Abraham onwards. 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