AI Weiwei and lost back bag: Chinese exile brush with bureaucracy Refugees

The backpack is forgotten on the train. There seems to be a simple problem enough to solve, especially in Germany, often famous for its arrangement and efficiency. But when every refugee or exile lives, the documents contained in the bag are not just a piece of paper to release it. It may not be dispensed well – the only displaced person to be in a bureaucratic community. Its loss can be destroyed, and the border turns into walls.

In this comic, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is associated with this experience. He denied China since 2015, it fully realizes the vital importance of documents such as passports and visas for those who have been forced from their original lands. According to Amnesty International, “Waiting is the most common word that those who are looking for a way out hear, often the latter.” The freedom of movement across the border is almost always identified through documents, and it can feel waiting for the appropriate papers without end. Sometimes it never ends, and for some, this is a matter of life or death.

In reference to this bureaucracy, artificial intelligence wonders, “Why is the bureaucracy?” Why should the displaced people live and die with their whims and restrictions?

For some time, Germany was known as a haven for such refugees, but this changed. While the country is wrestling with internal problems, it is oscillating towards the political right to the melody of the anti -migrant discourse, and its position towards refugees and migrants. I have been strained. Although AI Weiwei’s story to lose a backpack on one of the country’s trains may seem at first glance, it shines on something more evil about how our bureaucratic world that is exposed to their existence is threatened by the danger of whether they have or the lack of correct papers or not.