Excellent commentary and astute observations. This is the exact impetus for my emphasis on *Conscientious* emigration. All of the complexities and power dynamics you reference are extremely important to understand and navigate. One point that I have noticed is missing from these conversations is the difference between current immigration trends impacting former colonies (most countries in Latin America, for example), and those impacting countries that enjoyed the fruits of colonization (Spain and Portugal, for example). There is an uncomfortable hypocrisy in the anti-tourism and anti-immigrant sentiment emerging from these countries that profited so grandly off of extraction and conquest of other nations. When I have brought this up, it is rarely given good faith consideration.
In any event, thank you for this insightful piece!
Elizabeth, you summed this up beautifully. There is so much privilege involved here along with willful ignorance of their own history and the systems their foreparents instituted and left behind and of course, remain today.
"One point that I have noticed is missing from these conversations is the difference between current immigration trends impacting former colonies (most countries in Latin America, for example), and those impacting countries that enjoyed the fruits of colonization (Spain and Portugal, for example). There is an uncomfortable hypocrisy in the anti-tourism and anti-immigrant sentiment emerging from these countries that profited so grandly off of extraction and conquest of other nations. When I have brought this up, it is rarely given good faith consideration."
Thank you for taking the time to read and share your own thoughts 💛
Thank you for being a strong guiding voice on these thorny issues. We can move forward with intention and action. Suffering in the US is not the only ethical path.
Yes! This is such an important topic right now. I mean, not just right now, but especially right now. I'm seeing this economic colonialism everywhere I go. I'm seeing it on my little island in Thailand. I'm seeing it on the cobbled streets of Mexico. I'm seeing it in the high-rises in Valencia. Now is the time that we really need to open up this topic and analyze and discuss it as much as possible, so that we can enter into this new era of global mobility with our eyes wide open.
Excellent commentary and astute observations. This is the exact impetus for my emphasis on *Conscientious* emigration. All of the complexities and power dynamics you reference are extremely important to understand and navigate. One point that I have noticed is missing from these conversations is the difference between current immigration trends impacting former colonies (most countries in Latin America, for example), and those impacting countries that enjoyed the fruits of colonization (Spain and Portugal, for example). There is an uncomfortable hypocrisy in the anti-tourism and anti-immigrant sentiment emerging from these countries that profited so grandly off of extraction and conquest of other nations. When I have brought this up, it is rarely given good faith consideration.
In any event, thank you for this insightful piece!
Elizabeth, you summed this up beautifully. There is so much privilege involved here along with willful ignorance of their own history and the systems their foreparents instituted and left behind and of course, remain today.
"One point that I have noticed is missing from these conversations is the difference between current immigration trends impacting former colonies (most countries in Latin America, for example), and those impacting countries that enjoyed the fruits of colonization (Spain and Portugal, for example). There is an uncomfortable hypocrisy in the anti-tourism and anti-immigrant sentiment emerging from these countries that profited so grandly off of extraction and conquest of other nations. When I have brought this up, it is rarely given good faith consideration."
Thank you for taking the time to read and share your own thoughts 💛
Thank you for being a strong guiding voice on these thorny issues. We can move forward with intention and action. Suffering in the US is not the only ethical path.
Yes! This is such an important topic right now. I mean, not just right now, but especially right now. I'm seeing this economic colonialism everywhere I go. I'm seeing it on my little island in Thailand. I'm seeing it on the cobbled streets of Mexico. I'm seeing it in the high-rises in Valencia. Now is the time that we really need to open up this topic and analyze and discuss it as much as possible, so that we can enter into this new era of global mobility with our eyes wide open.
Oooooo exactly what I've been wondering! Looking forward to reading.