I painted La Mariposa in response to the incarceration of migrant children at the southern US border, using the monarch butterfly as a symbol of natural migration.
Migration becomes key to survival if basic needs are not being met in one’s environment. It is only natural.
If countries wish to reduce migration they should think in terms of helping to foster global equity, democracy and social justice to reduce the need to migrate rather than go to such extremes to stem it!
The Post Carbon Institute’s chapter on Community Resilience and Social Justice / Equity / Ownership speaks to this in the following quote…
“Resilience and sustainability require justice. Therefore much of the leadership for resilience-building efforts must ultimately come from communities on the frontlines of ecological disruption. These communities know that solving one problem by worsening another is self-defeating. A truly resilient community must foster equity and democracy, as well as ecological renewal.”
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