Remigration
a cruel vision
C. - A. Rebaf
- Three
- very
- different
- people
- meet
- on
- a
- rubber
- dinghy
- carrying
- refugees
- from
- Tunisia
- to
- the
- Italian
- island
- of
- Lampedusa.
- A
- reporter
- from
- Berlin,
- Alan,
- who
- is
- looking
- for
- a
- story
- incognito,
- a
- pretty
- young
- woman,
- Lerato,
- from
- Tanzania,
- who
- wants
- to
- go
- to
- Berlin
- for
- adventure,
- and
- a
- deserter,
- Feven,
- from
- Eritrea,
- who
- has
- been
- sentenced
- to
- death
- at
- home.
- In
- a
- desperate
- situation,
- the
- boat
- is
- picked
- up
- by
- an
- NGO
- boat
- and
- taken
- to
- Piombino.
- From
- there,
- the
- refugees
- are
- given
- the
- choice
- of
- being
- taken
- to
- Germany
- by
- bus
- or
- staying
- in
- Italy.
- Lerato
- and
- Feven
- travel
- to
- Germany
- and
- are
- taken
- to
- the
- initial
- reception
- center
- in
- Ellwangen.
- Alan
- follows
- them
- and
- gives
- them
- a
- home
- at
- his
- apartment
- in
- Berlin-Lichterfelde.
- The
- three
- get
- on
- well
- and
- Alan
- writes
- a
- successful
- story
- about
- their
- escape
- across
- the
- Mediterranean.
- So
- much
- for
- a
- largely
- realistic
- part
- of
- the
- plot.
- Now
- the
- plot
- turns
- into
- fiction
- and
- becomes
- a
- vision
- of
- the
- author:
- In
- Germany,
- a
- new
- party,
- the
- JvI,
- wins
- the
- general
- election.
- It
- has
- clear
- goals,
- one
- of
- which
- is
- the
- remigration
- of
- 1.5
- million
- people
- from
- Germany.
- It
- slowly
- becomes
- clear
- to
- the
- reader
- how
- this
- is
- supposed
- to
- happen:
- the
- re-migrants
- are
- accommodated
- in
- sufficiently
- comfortable
- containers,
- transported
- to
- Hamburg
- by
- truck,
- transferred
- to
- a
- container
- ship
- and
- taken
- to
- the
- west
- coast
- of
- Africa.
- There
- they
- are
- forced
- to
- switch
- to
- rubber
- boats
- and
- land
- on
- the
- nearby
- coast.
- The
- route
- of
- their
- escape
- is
- essentially
- mirrored.
- The
- remigration
- inflatable
- boats
- are
- distributed
- across
- the
- numerous
- West
- African
- countries
- that
- are
- completely
- overwhelmed
- by
- this
- invasion.
- The
- third
- part
- now
- describes
- Feven
- and
- Lerato's
- journey
- across
- Africa
- from
- Mauritania
- to
- Tanzania,
- during
- which
- they
- were
- trapped
- in
- the
- clutches
- of
- Boko
- Haram
- in
- Nigeria
- for
- a
- long
- time.
- The
- description
- of
- the
- circumstances
- there
- gives
- the
- reader
- clues
- as
- to
- why
- people
- flee
- Africa
- in
- the
- first place.
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