Deconstructing The Colonial Narratives Surrounding Migration — Part 6

Surpassing European Colonialism/Modernity

As seen in the previous parts, the world has been particularly unbalanced since 1492 for the benefits of western Europeans (the core) and their white supremacist enablers worldwide (see the concept of “house negro”) and against everyone else (the periphery).

The narrative claiming that things are getting better (the myth of Progress) is inaccurate as it only considers metrics that exist post-15th century and tries to depict the historical reality as linear (a narrative that goes: “it was very bad long time ago and it’s necessarily getting better”) while the reality is that the world has never been this unbalanced for quite a long time. It might be true that things were getting better so far for European citizens but that’s absolutely not verified for the rest of the planet, especially in the global south.

So how do we surpass this Eurocentric narrative that seeks to homogenize and standardize the world in the image of the European society of the 15th century onwards? In other terms: how do we surpass Modernity?

A postmodern world requires continuous deconstruction

A main mistake people make when tackling discriminations and anti-immigration sentiments is that they fall for the narrative putting it all on managerial dysfunctionalities or individual responsibility, thus refusing to acknowledge the systemic nature of…