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¿PREFIERES ESPAÑOL?
…O MAGARI IN ITALIANO?
What is a safe country?Who gets to decide that?
From which sofa is that decision made?
Take, for example, a Taliban commander in Kunduz,
with a bodyguard, a driver, air conditioning, and YouTube videos playing on
his laptop.
He might well feel safe in Afghanistan.
Does that make Afghanistan a safe country?
A young Kosovar,
the son of a construction businessman who wins public tenders through
connections,
educated in London, who returns to Pristina to run the family company,
may well feel safe in Kosovo too.
Even a Tunisian woman,
the niece of a Supreme Court judge,
may feel that Tunisia is a fine place to put down roots.
But does that make Tunisia or Kosovo a safe country for everyone?
For decades, we have produced rankings to measure democracy, press
freedom, access to justice, and crime.
Then we use those same tools to decide, from behind a desk, whether or
not someone needs international protection in another country.
For years, in the absence of common and standardized criteria, the EU
issued non-binding recommendations and each state drew up its own map of *“what
is “safe”*.
And so, through bilateral deals and public money, Libya is turned into yet
another open-air prison, and Albania into Italy’s 21st region.
Now the* EU *wants to solve the issue once and for all by publishing
its *list
of safe countries of origin.*
So let’s look at the line-up.
Number 1: Bangladesh.
Where Hindu minorities have endured violence and discrimination for
decades, while monsoons wash away crops, homes, and lives.
Number 2: Colombia.
Where Indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian communities continue to bear
the burden of *d*isplacement, armed violence, and illicit economies in
rural areas.
Number 3: Egypt.
Where a secular human rights activist and a Coptic Christian can surely
sit down for coffee and defend their views freely in public.
Number 4: Kosovo.
Where Serbian minorities can still smell the ashes of their *burned-down *
homes.
Number 5: India.
Where Dalits and Muslims continue to endure *oppression, *violence, and
discrimination as part of daily life.
Number 6: Morocco.
Where consensual same-sex relationships remain criminalized, and being LGBT
can mean persecution*, *violence, and fear.
And closing the line-up: Tunisia.
Another paradise. Especially if you are not part of a Black community facing
racism*, *hostility, and structural discrimination.
And what does all this mean?
That people from those countries may now be deported much faster.
*With less time.With fewer safeguards.With less opportunity to explain why
they fled.*
Without a serious and individualized assessment of their reasons for
leaving.
And that is precisely the problem.
Because an Afghan lesbian girl does not face the same Afghanistan as a
Taliban commander.
Because a young Kosovar does not encounter the same judge as the judge’s
niece.
Because a Moroccan minor sexually exploited in Marrakech does not
experience his country the same way as a family of civil servants in Rabat.
Because this is not about deciding whether a country is *safe in the
abstract.*
It is about asking a much more uncomfortable question:
safe for whom?
Let’s be clear.
Demanding rigour and humanity when assessing what counts as a safe
country does not mean legitimizing deportations.
It means that if they are going to keep investing *resources, bureaucratic
violence*, and other people’s lives in these procedures, then at the very
least the basic fraud should be exposed:
there is no such thing as a country that is equally safe for everyone.
And perhaps, with a little honesty, we might end up admitting something
much simpler:
there is no safer place than the one each person chooses for themselves.
What do you say?
Shall we keep fighting for this?
Because we can’t change this on our own.
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