Migrant Quotes

I personally subscribe to Dr. King’s definition of an unjust law as being ‘out of harmony with the moral law.’ And the higher moral law here is that people have a human right to move, to change location, if they experience hunger, poverty, violence, or lack of opportunity, especially if that climate in their home countries is created by the United States, as is the case with most third world countries from which people migrate. Ain’t that ’bout a bitch.

(In the hierarchy of migration, “expat” is largely reserved for white Westerners who leave their homes for another country, usually because the money’s better there. When other people do this, they might be deemed “aliens” or “illegals” or at best “economic migrants.

Hablar de extrarradio y de periferia significa hablar de clase obrera, de barrios humildes, bloques de ladrillo y hormigón, toldos verdes comidos por el sol, pisos sin ascensor y un porcentaje considerable de población migrante en edad de trabajar. Aunque se conocen como barrios de clase trabajadora, los habitan las personas sin empleo que se arriesgan a perder una muela por no poder empastarla.