#worldrefugeeday

[raurquiz]

#DiaMundialDelRefugiado #WorldRefugeeDay #startrek #thenextgeneration #upthelongladder #rolaren #generations #guinan #deepspacenine #sanctuary #wrongsdarkerthanlight #voyager #distantorigin #brenari #discovery #anobolforcharon #startrekpicard #zhaban #laris #ds930 #startrek59

[drsonnet]

"Home" by Warsan Shire

"Home" by Warsan Shire

no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well

your neighbors running faster than you

breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body you only leave home when home won’t let you stay.

no one leaves home unless home chases you fire under feet hot blood in your belly it’s not something you ever thought of doing until the blade burnt threats into your neck and even then you carried the anthem under your breath only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet sobbing as each mouthful of paper made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land no one burns their palms under trains beneath carriages no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled means something more than journey. no one crawls under fences no one wants to be beaten pitied no one chooses refugee camps or strip searches where your body is left aching or prison, because prison is safer than a city of fire and one prison guard in the night is better than a truckload of men who look like your father no one could take it no one could stomach it no one skin would be tough enough

the go home blacks refugees dirty immigrants asylum seekers sucking our country dry niggers with their hands out they smell strange savage messed up their country and now they want to mess ours up how do the words the dirty looks roll off your backs maybe because the blow is softer than a limb torn off

or the words are more tender than fourteen men between your legs or the insults are easier to swallow than rubble than bone than your child body in pieces. i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark home is the barrel of the gun and no one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore unless home told you to quicken your legs leave your clothes behind crawl through the desert wade through the oceans drown save be hunger beg forget pride your survival is more important

no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying- leave, run away from me now i dont know what i’ve become but i know that anywhere is safer than here

"Home" by Warsan Shire | Facing History & Ourselves

[museumofkashmir]

Yarkand Sarai: When the Chinese People’s Liberation Army invaded East Turkestan also known as Xinjiang, thousands of Uyghur fled. Many crossing through the treacherous Himalayas and crossed into Kashmir. Since the 1940s, many Uyghur and Kazakh refugees had made Kashmir their home. According to one account at least 11000 Uyghurs made their way into Kashmir and around 400 died on the way. Uyghurs and Kashmiris share a historical and cultural bond as well. Islam in Kashmir flourished after Bulbul Shah, from East Turkistan became the teacher to Rinchana. A Buddhist prince who became the first Muslim Sultan and later assumed the named Saddrudin Shah Uyghurs also traded with Kashmir with goods due for the silk route. There’s also a similarities in food and other culture. Uyghur refugees were given Yarkand Sarai in Safa Kadal Srinagar where they settled for some period. However many later moved to Turkey and United States due to the diplomatic pressure from Beijing on New Delhi. According to an estimate around 300 Uyghur families live in Kashmir. In 2015, three Uyghur asylum seekers were arrested in Ladakh and have been detained under the Public Safety Act. Despite being conflict ridden, Kashmir is also a host to other refugees including Tibetans. #worldrefugeeday #uyghurs #kashmir #kashmirhistoryproject #uyghurstan #uyghurculture #kashmiris #kashmir #refugees #eastturkestan #xinjiang https://www.instagram.com/p/CBpz8iinG04/?utm_medium=tumblr

[life]

Refugee children in 1946 gazing at Statue of Liberty from the railing of a boat. (Jerry Cooke—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #Refugees #WorldRefugeeDay #TBT https://www.instagram.com/p/By7txLPHfu2/?igshid=1cq9nb5ugqfq6

[khalilashawi]

تسع سنوات من الحرب .. تسعة أطفال يحلمون بالمنزل #رويترز #worldrefugeeday #syria #children Combination picture shows (top row, L-R) Ranim Barakat, a 9-year-old displaced Syrian girl from #Hama countryside; Jumana and Farhan al-Alyawi, a 8-year-old displaced Syrian twins from east #Idlib ; Maysaa Mahmoud, a 5-year-old Syrian displaced #child from #Homs countryside; (middle row, L-R) Walid al-Khaled, a 2-year-old #displaced Syrian child from Aleppo city; Rawan al-Aziz, a 6-year-old displaced Syrian child, from Southern Idlib countryside; Mahmoud al-Basha, a 3-year-old displaced #Syrian child; (bottom row, L-R) Mariam al-Mohamad, a 4-year-old displaced Syrian child from Homs city; Mohamed Abdallah, a 7-year-old displaced Syrian boy from Jabal al-Zawiya in Idlib's southern countryside and Abdul Rahman al-Fares, a 4-month-old displaced Syrian #baby from south Idlib countryside posing for #pictures in a tent at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border, #Syria June 19, 2020. Pictures taken June 19, 2020. #REUTERS / #KhalilAshawi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (at Idlib) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBqpToFALyK/?igshid=1hvns33efcywv

[mtaartsdesign]

New York is a city of dreamers.

Image: Ebony Bolt, “City of Dreamers” (2019) poster commissioned by #MTAArts.

[dapperq]

#WorldRefugeeDay repost from an incredible organization we support: @theirc Can you imagine a world without the music of Queen? Freddie Mercury (@mercury_motg) was a refugee. Freddie was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, now part of Tanzania. His parents were Parsi immigrants from India. In 1964, the family left for England to escape the violence of the Zanzibar Revolution against the island’s Arab and Indian minorities. Moving to Middlesex with his family, Freddie, then aged 17, started a new life. Six years later, he befriended his future @OfficialQueenMusic bandmates, drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May. He is now known as one of the most accomplished musicians of all time. This #WorldRefugeeDay, join us in honoring the contributions & potential of refugees. #StandWithRefugees at Rescue.org/Welcome. https://www.instagram.com/p/By84PUqg4K7/?igshid=1q5pb6hzwa2m7

[waldopeircegoestowar]

                                             TO CLAP THE LID ON THE MELTING-POT

“No pot can melt its contents when more is being shoveled in all the time, so it is now proposed to clap on the lid and give the mixture a chance to fuse—in other words, to halt immigration for a term of years.”

“It is impossible to keep out revolutionists and Bolsheviki without keeping out substantially everybody. We have had a law excluding anarchists for years, and yet the war developed the fact that we had thousands of them in our midst. The far famed melting-pot has proved to a great degree a delusion and a snare. We feel that it is now time that we were beginning to look after those of our own household, rather than to open our ports to many who know nothing of our laws, our customs, our standards of living, and never intend to learn of them.”

July 1919, US Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, The Literary Digest, Volume 62

Illustration: “Close The Gate”, July 5 1919 – This cartoon created in the midst of the post-World War I “Red Scare”, advocates for a restrictive immigration policy, recommending the United States “close the gate” on undesirable (and presumably dangerous) immigrants.