Refugees, how to deal with them, and the true definition has been an ever changing and hotly disputed topic for many decades. As time goes on the world continues to have displaced groups in one form of agony or another, flash across the screens of our phones and tvs. The question is how can we handle refugees better. This part of the large sweeping argument in Liisa Malkki essay Speechless Emissaries. Her essay is about the different groups that are tasked with helping refugees, how they intervene, and how they deal with the large flow of human populous. She goes on to state that, inevitably, most of the interventions end up being a failure. She uses “Contemporary” examples like Rwanda and Burundi as a way to prove her argument on why
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There are just too many to take care of and keep warm especially during this winter. Now in december we see articles of Syrian refugees “freezing to death” in the camps meant to protect them. This is another example to tack on to the ever increasing amount of reasons why the whole Syrian refugee crisis is a blunder. Though we should give them credit for the insane amount of refugees pouring into the country it has also been a political nightmare beyond belief, and that is usually the reason for the majority of the relief efforts in the past 50 years being failures in many eyes. An article by Vice has the same vibe as what they described as “Images flashing across screens” and how even though refugees are relatively safe from the original threat new threats have arisen. In Rwanda and Burundi it was due to the tutsi run military attacking the camps and food shortages, while in today’s Syrian refugee crisis its weather that is playing a huge factor on the wellbeing of the displaced. This Vice article is a prime example of what Malkki is talking about when she says, “Massive displacements of people due to political violence and the sight-on television and in newspapers-of refugees as a miserable "sea of humanity"have come to seem more and more common”(Malki 2) The Vice article shows multiple pictures of cold Syrians,
There are just too many to take care of and keep warm especially during this winter. Now in december we see articles of Syrian refugees “freezing to death” in the camps meant to protect them. This is another example to tack on to the ever increasing amount of reasons why the whole Syrian refugee crisis is a blunder. Though we should give them credit for the insane amount of refugees pouring into the country it has also been a political nightmare beyond belief, and that is usually the reason for the majority of the relief efforts in the past 50 years being failures in many eyes. An article by Vice has the same vibe as what they described as “Images flashing across screens” and how even though refugees are relatively safe from the original threat new threats have arisen. In Rwanda and Burundi it was due to the tutsi run military attacking the camps and food shortages, while in today’s Syrian refugee crisis its weather that is playing a huge factor on the wellbeing of the displaced. This Vice article is a prime example of what Malkki is talking about when she says, “Massive displacements of people due to political violence and the sight-on television and in newspapers-of refugees as a miserable "sea of humanity"have come to seem more and more common”(Malki 2) The Vice article shows multiple pictures of cold Syrians,