(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #225 - Racism and history: An overdetermined social reproduction (fr)

On racism, history plays an important role in determining the contemporary social context. 
To identify colonial crimes and continuity of processes of domination in the field of 
security, it also highlights the role of colonialism in the domination and discrimination 
at work in the organization of work. ---- Racism and exploitation are closely related 
since the Valladolid controversy in the sixteenth century, dehumanization blacks to 
justify slavery. Same during colonization, where inferiority and hierarchy of races have 
colonized the use of es as labor force, while perceived as a commodity like other 
colonies, which sends metropolis die in war, and As, work. In France, colonial and 
postcolonial immigration after independence, came to work in factories Renault or the 
building sector, should not be a state for labor that we should not worry about their 
needs and their rights.

Their condition was that of slum and home, followed by housing estates. Same utilitarian 
logic colonial with the establishment in 1963 of the ultramarines Bumidom [ 1 ] who 
organized the transfer of labor to the city: an incentive to come to occupy subordinate 
positions and painful especially in the public sector - where foreigners Foreign and could 
not be hired - the "domiennes" and "domiens" delivered themselves to their arrival, also 
experienced housing problems.

Very quickly, these people have felt cheated, abused and exploited displaced. The Bumidom 
is emblematic of a colonial practice that persists despite legal equality and French 
nationality. It is this particular story that we needed to talk about people from 
colonization.

The e-immigrant status as a heritage
With the advent of mass unemployment, children are colonized and, unlike the children of 
immigrants-are European (especially Portuguese, yet recent and equally working) strongly 
affected by unemployment are only for jobs we already reserved their parents. The children 
then inherit the condition of immigrant-e. Today, this economic fate has not significantly 
changed. This place in the working world, as well as growing up in neighborhoods where we 
parked the historically immigrant-es postcolonial significantly overdetermined social 
reproduction of children from colonization, even in school when orientation. For this 
generation, the refusal of the social position and made to account for the colonial 
history are related. Then the bourgeoisie speaks of repentance, ideological concept which 
denies the continuity of processes of domination. If the history of immigration and 
colonization was really known, the current racist domination would be only shaken more! 
The story is therefore objectively social news.

Nicolas Pasadena (commission racist)

[ 1 ] Bumidom: Office for the Development of migration in the overseas departments