SILYANE LARCHER. — La question coloniale ne se pose pas aux Antilles comme ailleurs, puisque la période coloniale ne s’est pas suivie de l’indépendance, mais de l’assimilation juridico-politique faisant de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe des départements français d’outre-mer, au même titre que n’importe quel département en France. Comment définiriez-vous..

“If justice had a Jericho trumpet, Chamoiseau would be it.”—Junot Díaz As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigrants attempting to enter eastern and southern Europe, Patrick Chamoiseau assails the hypocrisy and detachment that allow these events to happen. _Migrant Brothers _is an urgent declaration of our essential interconnectedness that (...) asserts the necessity to understand one another as part of one human community, regardless of national origin. (shrink)