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the 5th to the 8th November was celebrated III Colloquium. The impact of migrations in the globalized worldorganized under the aegis of several departments of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, among which the Museum of World Cultures stands out, where two events had previously been held under the same thematic heading. This act takes on special importance because today there is a situation that alters many of the elements that gave a more or less precise identity to the migratory phenomenon.
Today there are many migrations of various types; There are those of a labor nature, others occur due to environmental disasters, thousands of migrants flee from organized crime in their countries of origin, others escape from State terrorism, there are those who even consider tourism a migratory fact and there are no shortage of those who classify Tylor Swift herself as a repeated migrant due to her multiple tours.
Migrantologists have not agreed to define with certainty the phenomenon they analyze, but it can be stated that it occurs when certain individuals or social groups seek an improvement in their conditions of existence, whether material or emotional, and to do so they resort to various types of diasporas or displacements from some planetary territories to others. It should be noted that the most studied migrations have been those that have taken place from the 19th century to the present day, even though the migratory phenomenon has taken place since the appearance of the first hominids. But the migrations carried out in these last two centuries have basically been of a labor nature, since in the developed capitalist countries where several conquests of the native working layers have taken place, the dominant classes have resorted to colonial or imperialist expansions to exploit cheap labor in underdeveloped areas or they have imported workers from those same areas to generate a proletariat with nineteenth-century characteristics, in the last decades of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century and part of the XXI. That is to say, it was about forming a proletariat subject to overexploitation without labor rights and benefits, without healthcare and health services, and very punishable and disposable.
However, in the sphere of the exploited, struggles began to occur to achieve better existential conditions and living standards, forming various migrant organizations that have largely achieved various forms of social advancement in the receiving countries. This can be verified by witnessing the struggles that our compatriots make, especially in the United States of America. This has generated alarms and alerts in the sectors that are at the top and domination and that are fervently opposed to the improvement of these conditions of existence.
Personally, and as a member of the permanent seminary of Chicano and border studies, I have known, as Martí said, the insides of the monster. The great writer Paul Auster believed that the best and the worst could be said about the extraordinary city of New York. I think the same can be said about the United States. The nation where Lincoln was born is a country full of positive and magnificent events but, at the same time, within it the dominant ideologies have procreated large groups of fierce xenophobes, furious racists and mythomaniacs who believe they belong to a chosen people, just as Hitler believed in his and the genocidal Netanyahu in his own. In that extraordinary nation of excellent scientists and notable scientific sages, there are millions of men and women who think like Donald Trump and that is why he represents what some people call the ugly american (the ugly American).
Trumpian America is in decline and that is why its main representative conceives a fierce anti-immigration policy that he plans to carry out, even partially. In this framework, the defense of our migrant compatriots is necessarily imposed, which cannot only be a partial task fraught with difficulties for the Mexican government, but above all corresponds to the organizations of Mexican workers in various branches of the economy and the services, strengthen solidarity with those compatriots who aspire to a better future for themselves and their children
This call for a fighting spirit was presented warmly and intelligently in the aforementioned colloquium that can be consulted on the YouTube platform on INAH TV with the title III Colloquium. The impact of migrations in the globalized world.
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