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Goodbye‧UsmanCiao Ousmane
Goodbye‧UsmanCiao Ousmane
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In 2013, Senegalese olive harvester Usman. Diallo was only twenty-six years old when a gas cylinder exploded on his farm in Sicily. As an African migrant worker, he received almost no condolences, as if he was deliberately forgotten. However, Usman’s life and tragic death are not unusual.
Today, African migrant workers are found in farms across Italy, helping Italy become one of Europe's largest exporters of fruits and vegetables. Colonialism and global capitalism severely damaged the home countries of migrant workers, forcing them to seek better opportunities overseas. However, those who were lucky enough to sail across the Mediterranean and reach Europe found themselves suppressed by the judiciary, marginalized by society, and alienated from the local society. Local communities were isolated and ruthlessly exploited. For decades, Italian governments of all political parties have adopted anti-immigration policies, leaving migrant workers one after another in "inhuman" living and working conditions. Although they are the invisible driving force behind "Made in Italy", society has Turning a blind eye to these suffering people, never talking about their situation, maintaining a consistent silence, as if they are other people who do not deserve to be human.
"Goodbye, Usman" tells the story of Italian migrant workers. It not only pays tribute to migrant workers who cross national borders and try to change the fate of themselves and their families, but also hopes to expose Europe's ruthless exploitation and exploitation of African immigrants at the bottom. Squeezing migrant workers to build a prosperous and sinful city of Babylon.
"In the European narrative point of view, white Europeans have always been the ones with the right to speak, responsible for observing and recording with pen and paper in hand. The objects they observe will be given the opportunity to speak, but what they produce is a filtered voice and a diluted expression. dissatisfaction, everything they experience will be scrutinized, and eventually the big things will become trivial and the trivial things will disappear. For a long time, immigrants have been talked about and written about by others, as if they have almost no agency, and as if they are unable to shape their own destiny. In the end In a best-case scenario, migrants who survive their migration journey and overcome one country after another receive the title of "rescued" in narratives of "refugees welcome." Regardless of whether these people are classified as refugees or immigrants, their stories are still white people’s stories. ”——Bai Xiaohong
Today, African migrant workers are found in farms across Italy, helping Italy become one of Europe's largest exporters of fruits and vegetables. Colonialism and global capitalism severely damaged the home countries of migrant workers, forcing them to seek better opportunities overseas. However, those who were lucky enough to sail across the Mediterranean and reach Europe found themselves suppressed by the judiciary, marginalized by society, and alienated from the local society. Local communities were isolated and ruthlessly exploited. For decades, Italian governments of all political parties have adopted anti-immigration policies, leaving migrant workers one after another in "inhuman" living and working conditions. Although they are the invisible driving force behind "Made in Italy", society has Turning a blind eye to these suffering people, never talking about their situation, maintaining a consistent silence, as if they are other people who do not deserve to be human.
"Goodbye, Usman" tells the story of Italian migrant workers. It not only pays tribute to migrant workers who cross national borders and try to change the fate of themselves and their families, but also hopes to expose Europe's ruthless exploitation and exploitation of African immigrants at the bottom. Squeezing migrant workers to build a prosperous and sinful city of Babylon.
"In the European narrative point of view, white Europeans have always been the ones with the right to speak, responsible for observing and recording with pen and paper in hand. The objects they observe will be given the opportunity to speak, but what they produce is a filtered voice and a diluted expression. dissatisfaction, everything they experience will be scrutinized, and eventually the big things will become trivial and the trivial things will disappear. For a long time, immigrants have been talked about and written about by others, as if they have almost no agency, and as if they are unable to shape their own destiny. In the end In a best-case scenario, migrants who survive their migration journey and overcome one country after another receive the title of "rescued" in narratives of "refugees welcome." Regardless of whether these people are classified as refugees or immigrants, their stories are still white people’s stories. ”——Bai Xiaohong
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