HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF MIGRATION BACK HOME?

Film screening and discussion with: Paolo Gaibazzi (anthropologist, ZMO Berlin), Aïssatou Mbodj (anthropologist, CNRS Paris), Daniela Swarowsky (ISOE curator, ZMO Berlin)

The evening will start with the screening of a video documentation of a debate How To Talk about the Experience of Migration Back Home? (a collaboration between Aissatou Mbodj and Daniela Swarowsky) in the framework of the ISOE-Pre-events in a Parisian foyer (migrant hostel) with their Malian and Senegalese inhabitants. The themes in questions where: How do they transmit their experience of being a migrant when they visit their families back in West-Africa? In how far do they keep the image of 'paradise Europe' alive or does it get rather deconstructed? In the course of the debate tensions between the older and young generation appear, where a young man attacks the father generation to have lied to them about their lives in Paris. In the second part of this event, anthropologist Paolo Gaibazzi will talk about his fieldwork experiences in Gambia and other parts of West-Africa around the topics: Is Europe still a magnet for Africa's youth? Or is there a shift away from Europe to other centers or new strategies for envisioning a better future? The following discussion will open the floor to the public and will explore the questions raised in both the film as well as in the presentation by Gaibazzi.

all photos (c) André Wunstorf