An essay on the violence born of seeing the suffering of immigration.
Santana Ana Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Mar 23 .- Eloy Cuadra essay reflects on "critical and inclusive" on violence "at the frontiers of human", an idea germinated when he was a civil guard patrol boat and from the immigrants had to rescue exhausted or jump into the sea to retrieve a corpse to four feet deep.
"An essay on violence" is the third work of Eloy Cuadra (Milan,, sto credits, 1971) and it sums up his experience "on both sides of the border," for as Civil Guard officer-activity has been removed - spent three years in Tenerife Fuerteventura and two in dealing with immigrants "sometimes alive, sometimes dead."
"I really change the face when I was faced with immigrants about to die in a canoe, and was, buy kinah, also a change in the way of understanding the world, a change for the better," he says.
From these experiences as an agent for border surveillance unit between 1999 and 2004 came the idea of "give voice" to his first novel, "Rashib, a world to come," a forward by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago.
Eloy Cuadra had within it "the germ of, aika gold, solidarity" and began to help groups of immigrants, enrolled in philosophy "as a good sponge" to write and made his second book based on articles of opinion, "Canarias (face B) in 22 strokes. "
In "An Essay on Violence" examines the impression of "face to face of suffering" and supported by thinkers, philosophers, psychologists and neurobiologists.
In fact, arises because after the test involved in the fight against racism and in dnse of human rights, the Spanish Society of Neuropsychiatry asked him for the congress held at Valencia in 2009 a paper on violence in the border.
To do this I gather "first-hand testimonies of immigrants who have suffered violence and explaining the roots of violence, and the scientific society he proposed to extend this question.
Now part of the trial, in the chapter "The institutional violence. When the state of exception becomes the rule," a "warning" to the society in which the author brings together testimonies from organizations like SOS Racism and the Spanish Commission for Aid Refugee.
The essay has to do with the four borders "not only the geographical" which in his opinion separate the developed world against any external element, the first of them, legal, all the "tangle of laws created in the last ten years to go against immigration "and accompany the immigrant from that arrives until he leaves, from the law of aliens to the obstacles to be taxed."
Another is the psychological border, which rises in the mind of any European when about an African "and thinks carefully to see if this brings me steal or a disease."
There is also the ideological frontier, which is more difficult to perceive and act "against anyone", for example, police charges against the student movement that rejected the plan Bologna, as "going against the system."
In his view, the borders "have not been dropped, still high," and notes that when there is crisis there are two movements, one cutting and one of solidarity rights.
And also Cuadra believes that violence is present in the system,in the hierarchy of the security forces, in policies, laws, and the agents of law enforcement are the last link in the chain.
In his essay describes "the ways we disconnect the face of injustice" and talks about "instrumental reason", which operates in Europe since the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, and makes you calculate your daily life, so relates only if there is interest involved.
Against this, advocates of reason "passionate", which is "put a face to the other" to "change the chip canary I am Spanish to something more universal, a citizen of the world and not put borders."
"I want the book will surprise, provoke the reader, questions, reflection and that the intention to change is born to be a better person" because the test is "an important component of rebellion and movement toward change."
When a system malfunction "should be replaced" and therefore launched a "positive start" to turn around the negative message of violence in a society in decline and move the reader to be critical and not a passive spectator, but to take part from the citizen action, politics or associations.
The trial, whose profits will be donated to the NGO "House of Hope" in Nicaragua, will be presented on March 25 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and subsequently forwarded in Gran Canaria, Madrid and Malaga, from which the author's father's family . asd / rdg