Published by ‘Electoral Gazette’ text on the humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border By Margaret Tomczak, it was rather controversial. He was commented by Dr. Hanna Machińska, activists of the Podlaskie Volunteer Emergency Service Agata Kluczewska and Piotr Czaban, Agata Szczęśniak devoted the full edition of the program to him. There's a subject. on Tok FM radio, calling the article "breakthrough" and "very important".
I won't repeat their arguments about who's right: activists or a spokesperson for the Border Guard, which Tomczak thesis repeats? Or possibly the countries that he gives examples of, which tighten up anti-immigrant policy and turn Europe into a fortress?
I will look at the very thought of the text and the emotions it has caused, due to the fact that it is simply a evidence to deep confuse in the debate on migration. Each actor involved: activists, politicians, Border defender and creators has their own agenda. So Tomczak blames people who just do their job. Migrants are accused of migrating, and the manager is accused of making not a documentary, not a reportage, but a fact-based film. He accuses the author of writing a book, activists, of doing their best to save lives. She feels cheated by them, utilizing a suspicious “we”. “We” is who? All deceived by activists? All fooled by Holland and Grynberg?
Author of the text under the title Families with children, educated Afghan, pregnant female – people like Holland's movie are on the border but for He misses an elephant standing in the middle.
Let's do our thing.
Someone who would only know about the situation on our border with Belarus Green border, and after leaving the area he was transferred to conference of the spokesperson of the Border defender or the ministers of Kamiński and BłaszczakHe'd feel quite a few dissonance. The movie shows the dramas of people, and the SG conferences are like accounts from a computer game, where the enemy is dehumanized, and how we will learn most frequently that the defender (the icon of the Polish flag) stopped, for example, eighteen "illegal immigrants" from (here, for example, the flag of Iran, Turkey, Somalia) and "directed to the border line" (the icon of the Belarusian flag). In turn, from the statements of government representatives, we could learn that we are at war or that “young bulls are coming at us”. Personnel with “young bulls” were fed through the full election campaign, until it vomited – through the Law and Justice, but besides through the PO.
Neither 1 or the another or the 3rd communicative is “holy truth.” Each contains facts, but their selection and manner of presentation is dictated by the agenda of those who tell. It is hard to wonder which doubts arise from the effort to analyse these stories.
Such sets of doubts as shown by Tomczak, composed of impressions of facts and propaganda slogans, from fragments of cognition and disinformation, from fears and ideas, from general confusion, appear in many conversations. Like the desire to establish absolute fact and find where right lies.
However, individual who, like Margaret Tomczak, has been engaged in migration for a while, should not be amazed that since the dam became a way through Belarus there are even more men. The same was actual in Hungary, the same is actual everywhere. It is hard to go with the children, though it happens. Meanwhile, the author of the “disclosure” is, in a speech of betraying a large mystery, outraged at the fact that migrants cut the bars of the “unbeaten barrier”. They cut. It's clear they want to pass, they wouldn't leave the home if they weren't determined.
Some of them run distant due to the fact that they have nowhere to go. due to the fact that the places they might have called home have ceased to be safe, and they have heard that in Europe there are human rights, that there is peace, there is education, there is work – you can live. They'll usage all possible methods, legal ones first, due to the fact that they're safer, simpler and more dignified. And erstwhile they are gone, the others. They might be lying about it, possibly even saying there's a baby with them.
After all, children have more compassion than anyone else. Their harm impresses most of us and can encourage us to look for better solutions to the migration crisis than building Europe's Fortress. The second wants many, including Witold Gadomski from the “Gazeta Wyborcza”, who besides scares millions of young people from Africa, calling them “illegal migrants” and regrets the failure of colonization and the promotion of “Christian values”.
Activists have their agenda – they are saving lives and trying to draw the world's attention to the fact that they are left to themselves. I see no reason to blame them for doing what they can. It is the function of the writer to check the information received. Activists want people not to frost in the woods. They have against each another the strength of the state and the uniformed services that are doing “Afghanistan” there, as the head of the National safety Office Jacek Siewara late described. Authors: Agnieszka Holland and Mikołaj Grynberg, author of the book Jesus died in Poland, They want to give form and publicity to activists.
Elephant
However, Margaret Tomczak seems to require much more from them: he wants a solution to the migration crisis. She wants them to reconstruct the order of the world, to name what is good and what is bad, to tell the fact and only the (objective in addition) truth. To be more than human and more than an institution.
Here we come to an elephant, which is simply a complete deficiency of migration policy in Poland, but besides a deficiency of reliable policy throughout Europe. That's the real problem. We don't know who's coming or what's coming due to the fact that the service doesn't check. We don't know precisely how many people cross the border, how many they want to stay, how many they want to go on. Or how many people have the support of relatives who have already arranged their lives and can support their loved ones. We do not know what professions they have, what ambitions, what needs, what could aid them find a place on the labour market. It is up to the services which are required to registry and accept asylum applications to find all of this. It is besides up to you to make a coherent migration policy.
The state in these fields is failing. We don't know much, and we're getting confused. Margaret Tomczak accuses of manipulating the movie manager and activists with shown sex proportions. but it's not their occupation to keep and print statistics, they have different tasks. These should be exercised by officials and officials who, however, are utilized to mutilate, close migrants, and yet usage them for political purposes. Not only as a scarecrow, an excuse to grow the boundaries of power, but besides to form a fresh citizen.
In 2008, Maria Kaczyńska visited a migrant female from Chechnya in the hospital, deceived by a smuggler who got into Poland in a non-scriptural way and whose children died along the way from the cold. In 2023 compassion and emotion of old people, children, teenagers and women, becomes suspicious. He's being charged. In Polish forests people are dying of exhaustion, and from citizens the power expected that they would not pay attention to it, and children clinging to the barrier will fishy that with their large sad eyes they want to approach us, someway manipulate us. The default setting of our strategy was to be ruthless, suspicious, indifference. This may be the way to defend the Fortress of Europe, but I do not know if we can stand ourselves.
We're not giving up yet. Green border She had evidence ratings. Despite intense propaganda, society is not afraid of migration as in 2015. Finally, it turned out that we were able to receive refugees from Ukraine. Activist groups are formed by the foundations of institutions, specified as the Consortium, which brings together lawyers, activists, migration researchers. Or the Association of Legal Interventions, whose lawyers operate under the law adopted in Poland, face courts, but besides diagnose the situation and offer support to the future government. On the another hand, the XII National gathering of CODE Delegates protested against "breaking Polish and global law and basic humanitarian standards" on the Polish-Belarusian border.
The debate must take place
Blaming reasonably random actors of the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border is not a good start to the debate. But it reveals weak points, erstwhile even a writer with experience sinks into a flood of content and emotion – and alternatively of this chaos tames it, it inactive fuels it.
The debate on migration must take place. Until now, there was no area for it outside the narrow environments. I hope that the presence in the Parliament of Maciej Żywno, Adam Bodnar, the activity of institutions that are created on the basis of the experience of the crisis, will let the presence of the most crucial actor, which should be the state. That we will not only duplicate the bad solutions of different European countries, but – since the subject has come to us – we will effort to form Europe's migration policy in a wise and ethical way.
