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Refugee comics: personal stories of forced migration illustrated in a powerful new way
When a work of art called the “The List” was installed in July 2018 at the Liverpool Biennial in the UK, it contained the names of 34,361 refugees and migrants who died crossing the borders of…
- Emma Parker
- The Conversation
By September, it had been defaced with the words “invaders not refugees”.
While local officials condemned the culprits as “fascist thugs”, rhetoric which portrays refugees as nameless “invaders” has been used repeatedly by European leaders and politicians in recent years.
Such language deliberately dehumanises the estimated 65m people caught up in a global refugee crisis.
Against this backdrop, a…