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“Their progeny has blossomed into adulthood
they’ve left the haven of the nest
bound to their mates
busy crafting a new abode afar.”
― Sanu Sharma

“When the slave trade was abolished by the US government in 1808, on the assumption that this would lead to better treatment of the slaves already present, the first major European migration of low-wage workers to the US took place soon after.”
― Isaiah Senones

“Wealthy Individuals from poor nations emigrate to affluent societies, only to become impoverished within those prosperous nations.”
― Isaiah Senones

“Is it conceivable that the large influx of young men (migrants) being allowed into Europe by the EU is part of a strategy to recruit soldiers who could potentially be utilized in the event of a hypothetical World War III?”
― Isaiah Senones

“As an undocumented person, I felt like a hologram. Nothing felt secure. I never felt safe... I've learned to develop no relationship to anything, not to photos, not to people, not to jewelry, or clothing or ticket stubs or stuffed animals from childhood.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“I have a complicated relationship with airports. A space that once held promise, the gateway to summer vacations and adventure, now makes my heart race a little faster, beat a little harder. A seemingly random red strip of tape on the ground, a dated stamp and ink pad, a place of birth forever etched on a passport, and a somber uniformed officer determine our future, our lives.... I wonder what new family is anxiously pacing back there, sleep-deprived and confused, hoping for that stamp to hit the ink, hoping to step into a new life.”
― Naz Deravian, Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories

“- What do you want to be when you grow up?, asked a Macedonian father his child.
- A foreign citizen.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“You have to be blind or in bad faith not to recognize that France and most European states are more welcoming than other parts of the world. In any case, Africans are really badly placed to complain about racism in France when in their country of origin they are torn apart by tribalism. Tribalism and racism proceed from the same phenomenon of mistrust and rejection of the other. The crisis that Côte d'Ivoire is still going through has strong hints of tribal and ethnic struggle. In Cameroon, it is the Anglophones who want to secede. Abuses against foreign communities or mass expulsions of foreigners are regular in Africa, with the latest case being the miseries of foreigners in South Africa in 2017.”
― Tigori Ernest Kakou

“Understand that all absurdities only have free rein because the European is no longer able to react. For 70 years, it has been put into his head that his people have subjected Africa to the slave trade, colonization, the spoliation of natural resources and all the miseries of the world, and that as such they owe reparations to the African. The European, ashamed, must beat his culp! My book is a book of political combat, intended to free the European from these false accusations which imprison him in this inhibiting repentance. It is also for me to bring the African to reason, instead of abandonment in the comfort of the irresponsibility that has been instilled in him.”
― Tigori Ernest Kakou, L'Afrique a desintoxiquer

“There's something that happens to the newly displaced. Whatever power or choice that was stripped away in the process of reluctantly leaving one's homeland is fervently reclaimed in other situations, and honing in on the best spot to sit and enjoy a meal, be it at a restaurant or a lakeside, takes on the utmost importance. . . . If nothing else, we were always prepared for any and all circumstances and with plenty of provisions to see us through.”
― Naz Deravian, Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories

“Liberal hand-wringing over the electoral victory of the far-right in Italy will not extend to its core ideology: anti-migration. The EU will continue to support Italy’s abandonment and terrorizing of people on the move. Anti-migrant politics truly is the fascist foot in the door.”
― Nandita Sharma

“It is also difficult to maintain that post-colonial Africa hasn’t seen violence and suffering. The Africans who- oh wry irony- step into rickety boats in order to find a safe haven in the Europe of the former colonial powers.”
― Bruce Gilley

“Wherever I land, next time I'll look close, swear to God.”
― Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories

“The prayer sank deep in her luggage, and
for years she had longed for a robin’s song
unpacked � none the time to utter.
Madam, yani, her soul got stuck between
your teeth; piece by piece a treat or a banquet;
wrapped in a raw whole foods diet.”
― Lila Marquez, Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems

“People always ask me, they say, “Jarod, what do you do with your money?â€� Well, I base my financial decisions on the annual migratory patterns of Bigfoot, because maps are the new charts, as taught by the esteemed Ponce de Leon School of Youth, Wealth, and Duck Farming. Next time you’re in St. Augustine, Fl, or here in The Ozarks, you should stop on by and learn to become your own cartographer.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“You are either a resident or an immigrant. Only, a resident is an immigrant further along in the transition.”
― Daksh Tyagi, Signs of Life

“De toename van het aantal niet-westerse vreemdelingen â€� meer specifiek van de moslims onder hen â€� leidt in heel Europa tot de wijd verspreide perceptie dat het er veel meer zijn dan er in werkelijkheid zijn. Het onderzoeksbureau Ipsos Mori publiceert jaarlijks de zogenaamde Index of Ignorance. Daaruit blijkt dat mensen behoorlijk last hebben om een aantal fenomenen die typisch zijn voor de postmoderniteit correct in te schatten. Op de vraag hoeveel immigranten er in hun land zijn antwoorden Italianen dat het om 30 procent gaat, terwijl het er slechts 7 procent zijn. (Met “migrantenâ€� bedoelen de onderzoekers personen met een vreemde nationaliteit, niet de etnische afkomst.) De Amerikanen zitten er 19 procent naast: ze denken dat het om 32 procent gaat terwijl het er in werkelijkheid slechts 13 procent zijn. Van de ondervraagden uit 14 landen zitten de Belgen er als derde het verst naast. In België hadden op 1 januari 2015 1,26 miljoen of 11,20 procent van de bevolking een vreemde nationaliteit (dus niet verwarren met de etnische herkomst, want dan gaat het om 1,8 miljoen of 16 procent van de bevolking). De ondervraagde Belgen dachten dat het om 29 procent ging en zaten er dus bijna 18 procent naast. Australiërs en Zweden zaten het minst fout, maar toch ook met een overschatting van 7 procent. Op de vraag hoeveel procent moslims er in hun land zijn zaten de Belgen er het verst naast. Ze dachten dat het om 29 procent ging, terwijl het er in werkelijkheid net geen 5 procent zijn, een fout van 24 procent. De Fransen maakten een fout van 23 procent, de Britten en Italianen van 16 procent, de Amerikanen van 14 procent. Minst slecht scoorden de Polen met een overschatting van 5 procent en de Japanners met een overschatting van 4 procent. De onderzoekers concludeerden: “People (â€�) massively overestimate the proportion of Muslims.”
― Jean Pierre Van Rossem

“Parched fields,
rusted farm fences,

forlorn stone
and mud-thatched houses.

Rotting scarecrows
everywhere,

except the dancing squirrels
nothing moves.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“. . . as much as I missed the warmth of my family left behind in Iran, every inch of my being needed to settle and stay put. . . . Even talk of changing apartments was too much to bear. They say children adapt and adjust to change much easier than adults do. Like a soft ray of light settling on a pool of water, children bend and go with the flow. I was done bending and flowing. I was ready to stake my flag. . . .”
― Naz Deravian, Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories

“The children translate for the parents ... They are their parents' conduit to the new world.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“The result of unlimited immigration is showing plainly in the rapid decline in the birth rate of native Americans because the poorer classes of Colonial stock, where they still exist, will not bring children into the world to compete in the labor market with the Slovak, the Italian, the Syrian and the Jew. The native American is too proud to mix socially with them and is gradually withdrawing from the scene, abandoning to these aliens the land which he conquered and developed. The man of the old stock is being crowded out of many country districts by these foreigners just as he is to-day being literally driven off the streets of New York City by the swarms of Polish Jews. These immigrants adopt the language of the native American, they wear his clothes, they steal his name and they are beginning to take his women, but they seldom adopt his religion or understand his ideals and while he is being elbowed out of his own home the American looks calmly abroad and urges on others the suicidal ethics which are exterminating his own race.”
― Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History

“all kind of ensembles, humans with humans, humans with electronics, dark skin with light skin with gleaming metal with matt plastic, computerized music and unamplified music”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Uncontrolled migration produces social friction not because many refugees are criminals and terrorists (they aren’t), but because living side by side with strangers requires two precious commodities: goodwill and time. Both are necessary to build trust; neither is as widely available as we would like.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“Then I walked down the Cours Belsunce. The nets were stretched out to dry. A couple of women mending them looked quite lost in the huge square. I had never seen them doing this before. I'm sure that I haven't seen most of the really important things that happen in this city. To see the things that matter, you have to feel that you want to stay. Cities shroud themselves from those who're just passing through. I picked my way carefully among the nets. The first stores were just opening, and the first newspaper boys were yelling the headlines.

The newspaper boys, the fishermen's wives on the Belsunce, the shopkeepers opening their stores, the workers going to work the early shift - they were all part of the masses who would never leave no matter what happened. The thought of leaving this place was as unlikely to occur to them as to a tree or a clump of grass.”
― Anna Seghers, Transit

“Populism has no future in Macedonia. We are running out of people.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Todos los escritores de Europa deberían contar las historias de todos los Abdules que viven entre nosotros , hasta que no quede ni un solo lector sin comprender que, hasta el día en que leyó esas historias, había vivido en el pasado”
― Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa

“All children, legal citizens or not, should have free access to education and health services. Never punish children for the decisions made by adults.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“As a society, we cannot afford to overlook the nexus between environmental health and reproductive well-being. The future health and vitality of our communities depend on our collective commitment to creating a cleaner, safer environment for everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“We all promised ourselves we’d turn back once we had eaten a bit, but once we saw how much there is to feast on we grew hungrier and hungrier, saliva pooling in jowls as though we’ve never been fed.”
― Suri Matondkar

“Die wenigen, die durch die Maschen der strengen Grenzbewachung schlüpfen und die Insel erreichen, werden gnadenlos eingesperrt. Auch Minderjährige landen im Gefängnis. Mehrere Flüchtlingsorganisationen beklagen schon seit Jahren den Bruch von Migrationsverträgen und die Verletzung der Menschenrechte. Die Lebenden sind auf Malta nicht willkommen. Hier rettet man nur die Toten.”
― Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa