Quotes About Migration

Hands are wrung about the "migrant crisis"—but not nearly so much about the crises driving the migrations. Since 2014, an estimated thirteen thousand people have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach European shores.

just as bombs follow oil, and drones follow drought—so, now, boats follow both. Boats filled with refugees fleeing homes ravaged by war and drought in the driest parts of the planet.

I think my eyebrows had packed bags and migrated three counties north.

Nuestro sino es marcharnos [...]. No hemos de quedarnos para siempre.

Today's Europeans are fairly uniform, genetically speaking. But that uniformity came out of a biological blender.

Sólo desaparece la gente que tiene algún sitio adonde ir

Només desapareix la gent que té algun lloc on anar.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

Bernarda had arrived in Barcelona shortly after the war

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...

There were no Middle Ages in America, dumb-o," said his sister. "White people hadn't gotten here yet. Only Europe had Middle Ages.

So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.

This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.

I'm an American, and I live pretty well. But go down to Mexico, and a lot of people really don't. So what, we're going to blame them for trying to get out?

In Mexico, this idea that fathers go away is really deeply accepted because, for so long, so many men have had to leave to work in the United States.

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.

Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.