At one time walls were built to protect the city from looters, invaders and others threats. Globalization has meant more barriers for people but less control on financial flows.
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Historically the city was walled in to be protected (such as the Roman civité, the African fenced villages or the Latin American cities in post-Columbian era) The Berlin wall fall, the USSR disintegration and then globalization heralded a “total free world” without walls. However, they have been endlessly built especially after September 11th.
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Currently walls stop migratory movements from South to North, split communities involved in deep-rooted conflicts and separate world areas in steady tension and weapons race. The wall divides “security” from “insecurity”, “salvation” from “chaos”, “we” from “the others”. On the other hand it may be a place for proposals and claims.
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Claiming is the key step, especially in migratory field as well as its cause and the violation of migrant people rights. Other important point is bringing up those-legal and illegal- business around border controls or conflicts areas.
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Walls divide countries (Palestine, India and Bangladesh, the 38th parallel as the boundary between the Koreas, the island of Cyprus) and also block migratory flows (the Mexico-USA border, the anti-migrant fence completed by Greece on the Turkish border in 2012 or the Ceuta and Melilla border fences).
Recurso 1
- The Industrial Revolution made cities expand outside their walls. As a result of extreme inequality, gated communities within largest cities in underdeveloped countries are coming up in order to isolate superrich people from inner violence and crime.
- Bullet-proof in Alphaville
Autoría:
The Economist, The Americas print version
Fuente del recurso:
The Economist
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
English
Fecha:
16 August 2001
Recurso 2
- The Berlin wall fall, the USSR desintegration and then globalization heralded a “total free world” where walls had no sense at all. However, they have been endlessly built especially after September 11th.
- “Walls of Shame”: The World of Walls, Security Zones and Electrified Fences
Autoría:
Arthur Kallmayer and Global Research News
Fuente del recurso:
Global Research, Center for Global Research and Globalization
Tipo:
- Web
Idioma:
English. Originally published in Russian.
Fecha:
24 April 2013
Desvelar > En primera persona
By its own definition, a wall divides or delimits a place. Most the times that implies either splitting whole families or hampering the day-to-day routine up to become it a real nightmare. Sometimes is the difference between life and death; open water swimming, or thousands of miles on foot.
Recurso 3
- In the 80s the word wall was referred to the division of the Western World into two hostile blocks or to apparently unsolvable conflicts such as Northern Ireland’s where the walls still remain. In 2014 the work is synonymous with conflicts, world divisions (developed/underdeveloped countries) and their consequences.
- Los muros del mundo
Autoría:
RNE public broadcaster, Países en conflicto radio show
Fuente del recurso:
RNE
Tipo:
- Web
Idioma:
Spanish
Fecha:
29 April 2013
Recurso 4
- Just in the European Union 12,000 people died trying to get to “Paradise”.
- « Xénophobie business » : à quoi servent les contrôles migratoires ?
Autoría:
Claire Rodier
Fuente del recurso:
Rosalux
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
French
Fecha:
March 2014
Enfocar > Clave1
At the present, walls are built to block South-North migratory movements; to split communities in constant tension and split areas of the world where the weapons race is taking place.
Recurso 5
- For the first time the UN assesses how migration impacts on the migrant peoples´ wellbeing as well as other migratory flows apart from South to North.
- Migrant Well-being and Development
Autoría:
IOM (International Migration Organization)
Fuente del recurso:
IOM (International Migration Organization)
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
English, Spanish and French
Fecha:
2013
Recurso 6
- The thousands of kilometers of walls built in the last three decades reinforce the idea of “fortress” areas where illegal businesses blossom including illegal arms trade.
- Why are we building new walls to divide us?
Autoría:
Mark Rice-Oxley and a group of The Guardian’s correspondents
Fuente del recurso:
The Guardian
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
English
Fecha:
19 November 2013
Enfocar > Clave2
The wall divides “security” from “insecurity”, “salvation” from “chaos”, “we” from “the others”. It is the atavistic fear of the unknown.
Recurso 7
- Before physically building the wall it is necessary to build it psychologically and mentally on some sort of prejudice, fear or bigotry in order to keep it.
- Tearing Europe Apart
Autoría:
Yanko Tsvetkov
Fuente del recurso:
Atlas of Prejudice
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
English
Fecha:
28 March 2014
Recurso 8
- It seems to be proven by recent studies that those people with an authoritarian worldview are prone to reject both migration and any political integration process due to the extreme defense of their social or national identity.
- Euroscepticism is rooted in a broader authoritarian worldview that also includes higher levels of nationalism and hostility to ‘outsiders’.
Autoría:
Erik R. Tillman
Fuente del recurso:
The London School of Economics and Political Science blog
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
English
Fecha:
28 June 2013
Enfocar > Clave3
The wall can also become a place for political protest and denunciation.
Recurso 9
- In addition to the worldwide famous Berlin Belfast walls andBansky’s work walls, walls have historically been places for artistic expression.
- Face 2 Face
Autoría:
JR and Marco
Fuente del recurso:
French graffiti artist JR’s website
Tipo:
- Vídeo
Idioma:
English
Fecha:
2007
Recurso 10
- Back in the Middle Age walls were conceived for oppressed social groups as a place for social expression, graffiti being their language.
- Participación de cautivos cristianos en la construcción de la muralla nazarí del Albayzín (Granada): sus graffiti
Autoría:
José Ignacio Barrera Maturana
Fuente del recurso:
Archaeology Review (Mediaeval Studies Department), Jaen University
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
Spanish
Fecha:
2004
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Most the efforts of those people and organizations working in walls field is concentrated on reporting why building them is a systematic violation of Human Rights: because of the impact in people`s lives –no matter if they are migrant or not- , the generation of violence and illegal business (bribery, tax havens…)
Recurso 11
- In the case of migrants, overcoming the wall implies a second obstacle: to be confined in one of the Detention Camp for Foreigners -CIE in Spanish- that have mushroomed across the EU.
- Close the Camps
Autoría:
Migreurop
Fuente del recurso:
Migreurop’s Close the Camps project
Tipo:
- Web
Idioma:
French mainly although some texts are translated into English
Fecha:
Launched in 2002
Recurso 12
- Like if it was a wicked game, migrant people have to cross several small walls before facing the big one.
- Fronteras Invisibles
Autoría:
Fronteras Invisibles
Fuente del recurso:
Fronteras Invisibles
Tipo:
- Web
Idioma:
Spanish
Fecha:
2014
Actuar > Un primer paso
Since it is impossible to tumble the wall down overnight, we should erode the social one which is sustaining it. But how do we do it? Using reliable information, awareness and action.
Recurso 13
- Biased, decontextualized, alarming and intentioned information is a mainstay for many of the current walls. We propose that part of a he journalist´s job should be to help create a more democratic, fairer and really free world, through a reliable and diverse information.
- Corresponsals de les migracions. ¿Com abordar la cobertura d’un fet global?
Autoría:
Jean Paul Marthoz (author of the guide originally written in French). Carles Solà and Marta Muixí have translated this guide and turned into a journalistic project
Fuente del recurso:
Proyecto Corresponsals de les migracions
Tipo:
- Publicación
Idioma:
Catalan (but the book Couvrir les migrations by Jean Paul Marthoz, is written in French)
Fecha:
19 May 2013
Recurso 14
- Social networks have helped to spread the word as well as to give cyberactivism a chance. This is a key first step but it can´t be the only one.
- Esto hay que cortarlo
Autoría:
CEAR
Fuente del recurso:
CEAR
Tipo:
- Vídeo
Idioma:
Spanish
Fecha:
April 2014