![The Promise of Something Better](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Although I had been exposed to “The Burning” clips multiple times before, when we watched it in class on Tuesday I was still overcome with…
![Countries Stepping Up](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
What is occurring to the innocent refugees in the continent of Africa. These people have been subjugated to living in terrible conditions with no opportunity,…
![A Call to Humanize](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/09/inline_Welch_fg04.jpg)
In “Time Out of Joint”, Welch describes how Larsen’s End of Dreams figures, lost in the necroregion of the Mediterranean, reflect the uncertain identities and…
![Where Do I Stand In All of This?](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Fifteen minutes before add/drop/swap ended, I picked back up a Physics class that I dropped six hours earlier. For these six hours, I had felt…
![When do we take action?](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Larsen’s End of Dreams exhibit, a powerful piece within itself, is also eerily similar to the plight of the millions of refugees from Northern Africa…
![Subhuman or Superhuman?](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
“Don’t let your body feel the pain. Pain will slow you down.” From my growing knowledge in science over these past 3 years, I could…
![Liminality of Migration through the Lens of Art and Journalism](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/09/larsen1.jpg)
From Tuesday’s discussion and this week’s readings, I was surprised by the connections I could make between symbols of artwork and concepts in cultural anthropology…
![The Other Side](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
After first reading The Crossing I remember being filled with uneasiness and worry, knowing that the fate of Bambino and many like him was uncertain,…
![The Silent Death](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/files/2017/09/blog1.jpg)
Although created in 2014, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s End of Dreams creates a hauntingly accurate portrayal of death and the subsequent silence that migrants are…
![Helpless, Guilty, and Confused](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Reading “The Crossing” left me with a very similar experience to watching The Burning trailer in class for the first time. There was an immediate…
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