Let’s stop this sinking civilization! Did you spot this sentence from Pope Francis at the end of last year when he was at the bedside of the refugees from Lesbos? Sinking of civilization, migration crisis, what are the right words? It all depends on who takes the shot, the photographer will tell me. (Replay)
Delphine Diaz, lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Reims Champagne Ardennes (France), seems to me to know everything about focusing on the invisible and the proscribed of yesterday and today . The story of exiles adrift not having been born of the last rain, it reminds us of it – archives in support – by publishing In exile, refugees in Europe from the end of the 18th century to the present day. To see his many collaborations and publications (I will mention An asylum for all peoples? Foreign exiles and refugees in early 19th century France) my little finger in G Major tells me that his family tree has something to tell us about all these burning questions…
Delphine Diaz is scientific curator of the new Museum of Immigration History.
The musical choices of Delphine Diaz
Jean-Philippe Rameau The gallant Indies
Joxean Artze and Mikel Laboa Txora txori / Hegoak
Rolling Stones Can‘t you hear me knocking