![]() Messed up their country and now they want ![]() No one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truckįeeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled That no one puts their children in a boat Made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back. Only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets It’s not something you ever thought of doingĪnd even then you carried the anthem under No one leaves home unless home chases you Who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory ![]() When you see the whole city running as well Suggested read: 7 Best Poems By William Blake That Only Gained Popularity After His Death I want you to read all of them slowly to really experience the beauty of the worlds they create. It’s possible for wealthier nations to anticipate the continuing waves of displaced people and to shape long-term, orderly ways to help them weather the upheavals in their homelands or, if it becomes necessary, to help them settle in new lands, the way many of our parents and grandparents did.Today, we will be reading 5 of the best poems by Warsan Shire. Shire, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”īut it should not take mass drownings in the Bay of Bengal or the Mediterranean for governments to take action. ![]() So long as there is conflict and persecution, people will risk losing all in an effort to reach safer shores. But these improvements alone will not solve the problem. and other agencies dealing with the millions of refugees must be amply funded. It is clear that the United States and other developed countries must find more room for refugees and must distribute the burden equitably, and it is equally clear that the U.N.H.C.R. Efforts by the State Department to nudge the figure up a notch have been resisted by legislators claiming, as did Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, that this would create a “federally funded jihadi pipeline” for Islamist militants. In the United States, a country proud of its tradition of welcoming “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” fewer than 1,000 Syrian refugees, of the almost four million who have fled the country since 2011, have been accepted. Unfortunately, it is only when the human tide overflows its Third World boundaries, like the boatloads of Africans trying to cross the Mediterranean into Europe or the Syrians trying to cross from a refugee-saturated Turkey into Greece or Bulgaria, that the rich nations begin a panicky search for remedies. is expected to issue another report, which is certain to point out the appalling global growth in the number of refugees and that the overwhelming majority, 86 percent, live in developing countries, which are least able to support them. On World Refugee Day, June 20, the U.N.H.C.R. But when they are, as in the poetry of the Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, it is a cry of desperation: “You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.” In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard. Once away from their homes, they become a “problem” - wards of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency or the countries in which they take refuge, usually as an unwanted and resented burden. Some, like Palestinians, have lived as refugees for generations some, like Syrians and Ukrainians, are fleeing more recent conflicts some, like the Rohingya of Myanmar, run from systematic persecution. Around the world, at least 50 million people either have been displaced inside their countries or have fled to foreign lands. The global crisis of people forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution is expressed in many ways - in faceless numbers, always millions more than in the previous year in the images of desperate people crowded onto rickety boats in the pictures of endless tents on a barren, dusty field.
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