Quotes About Migration

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

Luckily, Europe, step by step, recognised that these mass refugee movements to Europe cannot work.

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

A map of Trump country would look a lot like a map of the various regions and counties from which young people with the best opportunities have consistently chosen to flee.

In Tijuana, because there's such a mix and match of people and regions and we're a newer city and everyone comes from some place else, I think we're just given permission to play with our food.

We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.

I couldn't relate to the mindset of people in my hometown. Since I had no educational qualification, I only got menial jobs in Delhi.

Delhi is a Punjabi city and everyone has relations in Punjab.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

I was born in Holland, Rotterdam, and lived there most of my life. I started my acting career there, but to really be successful, I left Holland and came to the U.S.

I think humans are migratory animals.

The wisest peasants were those who fled early. Their children will repopulate the land.

It's a grim reality, but the river towns are dying in Mississippi, by a slow exsanguination of people and talent that functions like a wasting disease.

I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.