Intersectionality describes overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, like gender, sex, race, ethnicity, class, age, religion, etc. If the response to the “migrant crisis” (as the media dryly calls this human tragedy of colossal proportion) is a resurrection of the swastika, then we will all find ourselves in big trouble.
They are the test of the ideas, concepts, and practices of our societies - such as democracy, organizational principles of society, functionality of states, borders, citizenship, global and local political forces, a test of the people in power, of human solidarity, of our values just name it. Do you see any parallels between the current debate in the United States and Europe, over how many refugees to take in from the Syrian civil war, and the matter of displaced citizens from the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s? Is there perhaps some liberating solution in your conception of transnational literature to a nationalist, unwelcoming response to émigrés displaced by war? Ugrešić: You are absolutely right! I believe that refugees (and demographers report that in the last year the number of displaced persons was so large that it is only comparable to the number during World War II!) are the ultimate test of humanity at this very moment. And yet, the knee-jerk response to such attacks is highly nationalistic and regressive I am thinking of calls to close borders and to block the path to immigration for those fleeing a similar sort of terror at home. It feels like, more than ever, we must move beyond a conception of nationalism to something “trans”-national, or “non”- national, in order to observe and respect a collective humanity, and ensure justice for all people. Forbes: The concept of country as “the whole world” feels particularly relevant today, as attacks like those in Paris come presumably from a nonnational entity.
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