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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: migration

Defence of refugee law sets Aquarius on Mediterranean collision course

The NGO rescue ship Aquarius aims to prevent migrants being returned to Libya despite orders from the European Council not to interfere.

Published August 5, 2018
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged migration, refugees

Indecent Development

Exceptional levels of remittances from migrant workers may explain an apparently sharp improvement in poverty figures in Nepal. But there is a human price to pay for this model of development.

Published October 5, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged migration, nepal, poverty reduction

Asian migrants are not for sale

There’s something uncomfortably de-humanizing about packaging economic migrants, as though they were destined for shipping containers.

Published July 5, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged bangladesh, migration
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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things