‘To see the experience of another’: learning from Berger’s <i>A Seventh Man</i>

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A Seventh Man , in which John Berger and Jean Mohr revealed the material circumstances and inner lives of migrant workers, on whom Europe depended, the author considers how the arguments in A Seventh Man , particularly its insistence on the need ‘to see the experience of another’, can inform contemporary responses to the state violence of expulsion being imposed upon people on the move in the US.