Lampedusa — drzwi do Europy. Kiedy większość staje się mniejszością… Współczesna emigracja afrykańska na kontynent europejski

Abstract

Islands have always played a special role in migration processes. A long memory and historicalexperience of the 19th and 20th centuries emigration to the United States has createda cultural paradigm of island as a phenomenon of uncertain. The island was a place of welcome and hope, but at the same time the constituting elements of an island — isolationat sea and division from the continent — were terrifying to migrants.Migrations between continents, despite the passage of time, reproduce the patternsknown from the past. Analysis of the phenomenon of the island is inseparably linkedwith the analysis of contemporary African migration to Lampedusa. Over the last25 years, Lampedusa, which constitutes the aim of migrants’ journeys, surely extendsthe paradigm of Ellis Island and is at the same time shaping a new model of immigrant /the African / the European.