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Having first read The Crossing and having heard the story of Bambino, I was initially very excited to receive a notification from my Medium account…
![Surviving the Crossing](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
After reading “The Crossing” I was immediately curious about life after a ‘successful’ crossing and what exactly happened to those who were lucky enough to…
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The first time I read The Crossing and watched the trailer for The Burning, my jaw dropped. I felt like my entire life, I have…
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What struck me as most profound in Larsen’s End of Dreams was not the human-shape figures themselves or the eerie dark-blue shadings of the images,…
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I have read The Crossing many times, but still – every time without fail, it hits me with chills and leaves me questioning the world…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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