Deconstructing The Colonial Narratives Surrounding Migration — Part 3

Binarist Thinking And The Dehumanization Of The ‘Other’

Western Europe after the Alhambra Decree (1492) is a totally different place than before. With a Bubonic Plague that killed most of the continent’s population a century before and a colonial structure ready to be deployed worldwide, it was only a matter of time before a myriad of new laws got adopted by the rising colonial superpowers and that would seal the fate of the worldwide political and economic landscape for the next five centuries.