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One quote that particularly stood out to me was, “While African children have long functioned as exemplary victims, Americans generally help them “over there”—during famines…
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I decided to do my critique on the contemporary artist and activist from Beijing, China, Ai WeiWei. He actually began his work in China, and…
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I watched the video “Europe of Die: People Smuggling in Sicily” on VICE. One of the interviewees, a former people trafficker, said this about his…
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Identity construction has never been a simple topic of discussion. There are so many competing personal, societal and geographical factors that tie into an individual’s…
![Refugees Romanticized?](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
There was one particular line in Heath Cabot’s article, Crisis, Hot Spots and Paper Pushers: A Reflection on Asylum in Greece, that struck me. He…
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One quote from the first article, Hot Spots: What They Mean, really struck me. It reads, “Contrary to what is generally thought, and in spite of the…
![Privilege with a Purpose](https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/themigrantandrefugeecrisis/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
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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