Emotions like disgust, or in psychoanalytic terms, abjection, is a well-known reaction to people crossing borders. What we in so-called Western societies, believed to be built on universal human rights, need to come to terms with is that the abject — the stateless refugee who is here but not really (legally) here — is a product of our own system. They are not outsiders coming in threatening our “order” but results of that “order”; they are the insides becoming visible...
This text was originally published in Byltingur, 05 (2019). It has also been published in an abbreviated and edited version in Friktion Magasin, 18 (2019).
Now I have put it in the public domain so you can read it on Medium.