Kontextmaschine

25th April 2022

Post reblogged from Immortalism and Interplanetarianism with 28 notes

So like, the central organizing idea of Warmth of Other Suns is that the Great Migration can be best understood as fundamentally similar to earlier immigration waves from Ireland or Italy of the Pale of Settlement - in terms of the reasons for it, the experience of the migrants on arrival, the divide between the old and new worlds, and so on.
Which, sure, seems plausible at first blush. But I really hadn’t realized it extended to even, like, ‘the initial generation of migrants was generally composed of the better educated segments of the population back in the old country, and on arrival was pretty quietist politically and focused on self improvement/comparing the shitty conditions to the much shitter conditions back home, while their children tend to be much more politically active and press for, like, actual equal treatment.” (Didn’t quite realize that was a general trend in the immigrant experience, really)

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