It's Refugee Week in the UK and yet refugees and asylum seekers are continuously scapegoated and denigrated. But what would you do if you faced their circumstances? Here's an actual refugee's story...
Thank you Jennie! Too often refugees are dehumanised, so this is my small bit to bring attention to the human side of the plight of refugees. I really wish that we didn't have to make this point.
Thank you Garth! All my life I had to face and deal with the consequences of my grandmother's fate, so I was never allowed to forget it. I'll have to do my grandfather's story too, which is even more tragic than my grandmother's.
Absolutely! It's difficult enough just to move from one city to another in the same country, but to go to another country on the other side of the world, especially when the environment for most new arrivals has been and still, unfortunately, is unwelcoming, is mind-boggling for me.
Well said.
Thank you Jennie! Too often refugees are dehumanised, so this is my small bit to bring attention to the human side of the plight of refugees. I really wish that we didn't have to make this point.
It’s true. People just don’t see beyond the numbers
Superb post, Nick. Using your own family history makes this very powerful writing.
Thank you Garth! All my life I had to face and deal with the consequences of my grandmother's fate, so I was never allowed to forget it. I'll have to do my grandfather's story too, which is even more tragic than my grandmother's.
Absolutely! It's difficult enough just to move from one city to another in the same country, but to go to another country on the other side of the world, especially when the environment for most new arrivals has been and still, unfortunately, is unwelcoming, is mind-boggling for me.