Arts & CultureAsylum SeekersFeaturesGlobal IssuesHuman RightsHumanityLiteratureMigrationMulticulturalismPoetryRefugeesSocietyWorld
A poem about refugees you need to read
Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a wave of anti-refugee sentiment made its way overseas to the United States as multiple governors and Congressmen began expressing an…
- The Refugees, authored by Jason Fotso.
To Jason Fotso―eighteen years old at the time―this shut-door stance contradicted the longstanding U.S. policy of welcoming in refugees, and more symbolically, the sonnet inscribed on the…
He sought to capture this spirit in a…