There was an attack. A mother holds her child’s hand, so he took his last breath, in the arms of the same person who saw him born, today another child is also separating from his family, does not know when he will find her, says goodbye. with tears that hold hope for a better future. This is the drama of refugees.
This drama speaks of the pain of thousands of people. People who dream and want the same thing as you. Children who can no longer laugh after suffering so much.
- They may be called forced immigrants because in their home country they are persecuted for belonging to a particular ethnicity or ideology.
- Or also because their country does not provide them with sufficient security supplies or guarantees to lead a dignified life.
Refugees don’t come to steal our jobs, they don’t come on a whim, they’re not terrorists.
? You have to understand
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the earth.
No one burns their palms
under the trains,
under the trucks,
nobody spends days and nights in a truck
feeding on newspapers, unless the miles traveled
means more than the road. ?
-Extracted from? Home ?, Fogal-
The tragedy of refugees is to live in no man’s land, does the inability to lead a normal life in this once-home place and at the same time face the strict opposition of many potential asylum countries cause exorbitant levels of anxiety or depression?provoking feelings of vengeance.
All this must be added to the constant bombardment. This develops a state of hypervigilance, chronic stress, which often represents the trigger for other more serious disorders, such as schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress disorder.
It is not surprising, therefore, that a person in situations of social and psychological instability performs acts that deviate from law and ethics or join a group that offers security, salvation and justice to his loved ones. everything collapsed?
However, we’re surprised, at what speed do we see other people’s faults, but we don’t see ours, do we?The latest news shows an increase in the far right, especially in Europe. Aren’t people in a social and psychological context of uncertainty also looking for security?
When is the slightest chance of winning a hellish journey on a boat, in the desert or at the end of years of pilgrimage at the hands of the mafias better than staying in the territory itself?Neither fences, no borders, no decrees, police, barbed wire, nor the Mediterranean Sea itself will be enough to prevent a family seeking a better life, a dignified life.
Looking away will not solve the problem. Financing the conflict will not solve the problem either. We don’t have money to receive, but do we have to provide weapons? This double standard is a problem.
Because? Because it’s a round trip. The more the boomerang is launched, the greater the strength of its return, we deny the cruel reality of the existence of this mass exodus, or, when we do not deny its existence, we deny reception in our countries, as is the case in the US. But it’s not the first time Or we accept existence and acceptance, but we don’t include these people in our society.
If one emerges, just one of these possibilities, we’ll build time bombs. What would you do if they destroyed your house, kidnapped your son or bombed your family, what would you do if you’d lost everything and had no chance of getting better?What would you do if you just had the helplessness and feeling that everything is happening with the consent of people who could have avoided this situation?
The answer is quite simple. When you get to the point where your life doesn’t make sense, you destroy yourself, you seek revenge or you save yourself, it is at this stage that our intervention is extremely important.
It has been found that most of the attacks were not committed by “terrible Syrians who came to kill everyone,” but by indigenous peoples. The second generations that were not welcomed by their adopted country. Double rejection by not being recognized French or German by law, but neither Syrian nor Iraqi.
It is here, in this land of no one, in this lack of identity and belonging to a reference group, that “saving himself, who can?”Impregnating the drama of refugees.
We don’t seem to remember. Just 75 years ago, 465,000 Spaniards crossed the French border in search of asylum while fleeing the Spanish Civil War, of which 220,000 never returned.
Neruda’s phrase also characterizes the current refugee drama: “Love is so short and forgetfulness so long. “
Moreover, it is even more surprising if we take a moment to look at the general context: our young people are leaving. Are you going to the United States, China, France, Ireland? They’re looking for a better future. The snippets at the beginning of this article may affect them, you, or any of us.
It is up to us to raise our voices for those who have drowned out their tears with tears, for the more than 10,000 children who disappeared on European soil who hope one day to find their families, as well as by many others who sell their bodies in exchange refugee camps for their own lives.
In 2015, Unicef acknowledged nearly 1,500 serious child abuses, including murder, mutilation, solicitation or abduction, among other crimes, of which 400 cases involved deceased children and nearly 500 mutilated children, two years have passed. Are they terrorists, too? Let me take advantage of the doubt.
The easiest exercise to help is to open the mind and heart to our peers.