Inclusion?!

Inclusion – a new term for the attempted integration of the hybrids into the realities of the adopted country relies heavily on formally recognized programs that push and require citizens of the country of migration to become less judgemental and to accept the “intrusions” caused by aliens to their land? All these ideas and criticism or scepticism comes after seeing the ad of formal inclusion.

“The Migrants in the Spotlight project, funded primarily by the European Commission, aims to contribute to improved understanding, awareness and reporting on migration issues, third country nationals, integration and related topics among media and students of journalism, including immigrants themselves, in order to facilitate more effective and accurate reporting on migration issues in Hungary, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia. More info at: http://www.mits-eu.org/index.php”

Are we going to formally need to recognize humanity for it to exist? Why the constant need to categorize and name things in order for them to exist? Can a social reality be ignored because of a lack of naming and categorization?

It almost seems that we have put the onus on ourselves to call into existence or discard realities of life. And then I think further at the way in which we establish through the media and different organizations, what is and what is not, to the detriment of all that is. It may sound slightly confusing, but the definition of what is and what is not leads to the poverty of society as a whole. What we know is limited to what we can define and categorize.

I wonder, has migration only started when the International Organization of Migration and the UN as well as other organizations first labeled it as a term… and not a human reality? Do we need to remove the humanity from the reality to present a deemed objective truth? Or, even more, does migration need to become a mere statistical reference for it to gain importance?

The IOM (International Organization of Migration) holds that statistically, the 214 million migrants in the world, of which 49% are women, would be able compile the 5th largest world country. Given the high number of displaced people, is there still a need to formally recognize them, or can we simply relearn the human face of migration and without the formal recognition accept foreign additions as a wealth of diversity?

The institutionalization of terms doesn’t change the reality, and if members of the international bodies of government are still seeking to assimilate the aliens in their countries through social programs of integration or recognition, are they not merely reinforcing the distinctions between the people? Something to ponder on…