WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL CA #332 - Defend the CADAs? - Of course, but remaining critical and lucid (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 We all have in mind the muscular offensives of the thugs of the "facho,

catho-tradi, old France and Badernes in uniform" movement against the
associative and municipal projects to set up reception centers for
asylum seekers (CADA) in small rural towns. In Callac, in the Côtes
d'Armor, the offensive was such, with the added bonus of a surge of
anti-Semitic attacks against its promoter, that the project was
abandoned. In Saint-Brévin (Loire-Atlantique) on the other hand, and
despite the fact that the thugs have taken an additional step by burning
down the mayor's house causing him to resign from his mandate, the
counter-offensive has set in supporting the new mayor who does not want
to let go of the project. In Belâbre (Indre) either, the demonstrations
of a coalition of fascistic small groups including Reconquête de Zemmour
against the Cadac project supported by the town hall and Berry
associations did not cause those inhabitants who intend to show their
solidarity with towards asylum seekers.

Reception centers for asylum seekers (CADA) are responsible for
providing accommodation and providing social and administrative support
to those who find themselves on French territory. After a year, they are
either "regularized" for a time and regain the right to work that they
did not have, or they are expelled. They are the continuation of
structures created in the 1970s to accommodate Chileans hunted down by
the fascist regime of Pinochet or Asian boat people fleeing the new
regimes after the victory of the Viet Minh over the American army.
Thereafter, the number of persecuted people fleeing their country of
origin never dried up due to the multiplication of wars and
dictatorships around the world. It should be noted that most of these
wars are only the reflection of those that the great imperialisms are
waged far from their soil by distant belligerents interposed and that
the dictatorships, too, have been installed or supported by these
imperialisms. At present and according to Cimade, the CADA system can
accommodate 50,000 of the 140,000 people who have applied for asylum in
around 400 centres. Each of them receives the royal sum of 6.80 euros
per day to survive, a couple without children 10.37 euros, with a child
12.81 euros!

Belâbre is characterized by closed shutters that stretch throughout this
town on the border of the Indre and the Vienne. Unoccupied houses for
sale after the death of the last inhabitant or second homes occupied for
a few weeks a year, preferably in summer.
Here, rural desertification is not an empty word. The village, which had
1,600 inhabitants after the Second World War, has only 900 today,
including some who live there without living there. The aging index is
particularly high: 45% are over 65 years old.
A situation conducive to generating frustration, bitterness and concern
for the future, so many ingredients that can easily turn into rejection
and then into hatred of an imaginary scapegoat suspected of wanting to
take advantage of this decline to seize a abandoned space and replace
the "French stock". This is precisely what self-proclaimed "French
native" nationalist militants, supporters of Zemmour, proclaimed
followers of fascism, in short what is called the fachosphere, seek to
do. If you let a cadac open "you are going to deliver bad encounters to
the children of our schools and the joggers of our forest? Are you going
to pretend that you are certain that criminal elements would not be
spying on them in order to massacre them? They will have all day to
observe them and the whole forest to act," sums up the association of
mayors for the common good at the forefront of this anti-CADA offensive.
How to fight against these racist scams? It is probably not enough to
say yes to CADAs because they are not without contradictions.

They are financed by the State and managed, under the authority of the
Prefecture, either by so-called local or national charities (composed of
volunteers or employees, such as France Terre d'Asile or Cimade) and,
for the most large structures, by private companies chosen by tender,
which finds there a way to do business. For the latter, this is a real
market: for example the Adoma company which managed in the 1970s and 80s
the sadly famous Sonacotra hostels for single migrant workers in
conditions bringing them closer to sleep merchants than landlords. of
social housing, made up for the reduction in its clientele by converting
to "receiving" refugees. But the Cadas can also be the result of the
approach of a simple municipality supported by associations of
volunteers in solidarity with migrants. This was the case with the
Callac, Saint-Brévin or Belâbre projects or previously in Limousin or
Berry. And those are the ones we support, but not at the cost of not
asking a few questions.

As we already said in an April 2016 article by Courant Alternante, "the
different visions of the reception of asylum seekers", not everything is
made of the same wood in these projects.
Why does the state agree to send some asylum seekers to small towns or
villages? Because in a big city and in a large cada the asylum seeker
can integrate into networks of acquaintances allowing him to find
undeclared work; in a small village he will be more easily controlled
and less autonomous in his relationship possibilities.

Moreover, the discourse of fear of nasty immigrant rapists or terrorists
leads to often ambiguous responses and practices in an attempt to
counter it. Here, we cite as an example someone who was a doctor, or a
teacher driven out of Syria or Afghanistan by war or dictatorship. We
are shown a couple united by the sacred bonds of marriage with their two
beautiful children who have learned the language so well and so quickly
that they succeed in school. In short, models that look like "ours" (or
are supposed to look like). It is better to be a family with children or
a single woman to attract compassion than a single man without
qualifications. And above all, it is better to be white (or almost) from
the Middle East than black and single from anywhere. All these
distinctions are never openly assumed but they are obvious and are
always made for the good cause, that of showing that an emigrant is not
the devil. Yet they clearly demonstrate that class issues are always
present in the question of reception and treatment of the right of
asylum, including and perhaps even especially in the practices of
solidarity. It is up to us to make them visible there, including by
assuming opposition to humanitarian organisations.

JPD

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