In our changing world, the growing phenomenon of human mobility emerges. Last year, Pope Francis said “migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity” However, according to what is happening around the globe, migrants and refugees seem to be puppets moved from side to side, with no future ahead and leaving everything they are in the past.
Evan Barttlet reminds the reader how kind British people were throughout history when they accepted and received refugees from different parts of the world. Not only during World War Two but also in many other occasions, people from the four parts of Britain welcomed refugees and sheltered them under their arms. Zygmut Bauman refers to history as well but he has a negative point of view on the matter. He claims that humanity has always been moving, this is not something new. Migrants have always sought for a better future. “… waste producers of yore … used to seek and find global solutions to problems they produced locally” (Bauman, p. 32). What is new is that migrants are considered the excess of population nowadays; they are the human waste as Bauman calls them. …show more content…
Should British people accept them the way they did in the past or should they act differently? Certainly, European ideas have changed in the last decades. “Policies that are inward rather than outward looking, centripetal rather than centrifugal, implosive rather than explosive” (Bauman, p. 51) New ideas have led Britain and other countries in Europe to seal their national borders and to control migrants and refugees in order to know everything about
Evan Barttlet reminds the reader how kind British people were throughout history when they accepted and received refugees from different parts of the world. Not only during World War Two but also in many other occasions, people from the four parts of Britain welcomed refugees and sheltered them under their arms. Zygmut Bauman refers to history as well but he has a negative point of view on the matter. He claims that humanity has always been moving, this is not something new. Migrants have always sought for a better future. “… waste producers of yore … used to seek and find global solutions to problems they produced locally” (Bauman, p. 32). What is new is that migrants are considered the excess of population nowadays; they are the human waste as Bauman calls them. …show more content…
Should British people accept them the way they did in the past or should they act differently? Certainly, European ideas have changed in the last decades. “Policies that are inward rather than outward looking, centripetal rather than centrifugal, implosive rather than explosive” (Bauman, p. 51) New ideas have led Britain and other countries in Europe to seal their national borders and to control migrants and refugees in order to know everything about