Yasin Kakande: What's missing in the global debate over refugees
ياسين كاكاندي: ما المفقود في النقاش الدولي حول اللاجئين
Yasin Kakande is exposing the human rights abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East. Full bio
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living in the United States
وأعيش بالولايات المتحدة
على طلب اللجوء الخاص بي.
much freedom of movement
who are desperate enough
and stormy seas in boats.
عبر البحار المتقلبة والعاصفة.
from West Africa and North Africa face
من شمال وغرب أفريقيا
but fortunate opportunity
a gathering like this.
what often is missing
عن ما يكون غالبًا مفقودًا
welcomed newcomers,
يرحبون بالقادمين الجدد سابقًا،
numbers of individuals
بسبب تزايد عدد الأفراد
is that the newcomers upend the stability
in their countries.
والتوظيف في بلدانهم.
look towards politicians
يتجهون صوب السياسيين
to see who can claim the prize
الصوت الأقوى للشعبوية والقومية.
of populism and nationalism.
is the toughest on migrants,
على المهاجرين،
projects in building walls.
مشاريع بناء الجدران.
symptoms of the problem,
would be willing to listen.
على استعداد للاستماع.
and inequalities inflicted regularly
اللذان يحدثان بانتظام
from the governments
as a journalist in the Middle East.
كصحفي في الشرق الأوسط.
puts everyone at the risk of starvation.
في خطر المجاعة.
for my brothers and sisters
serious plight as migrants.
about me writing a book
لكتابتي كتابًا
when I still worked in Dubai,
بينما كنت لا أزال أعمل في دبي،
to pay for his treatments.
to sustain his treatment,
to take him to a hospital.
to lay it in the ground
that are multilayered is never easy,
ليس سهلاً أبدًا،
more than just rhetoric.
والمزارع الكبيرة في أفريقيا لا تزال مملوكة
farms in Africa continue to be owned
are shipped to the West,
will flow continuously.
that could ever be so rigorous
يمكنها أن تكون صارمة بما يكفي
that has determined our human history.
التي حددت تاريخنا البشري.
لفترة طويلة
for reconciling, finally,
في النهاية،
in creating a more just global economy
لخلق اقتصاد عالمي أكثر عدلاً
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yasin Kakande - Investigative journalist, authorYasin Kakande is exposing the human rights abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East.
Why you should listen
Investigative journalist Yasin Kakande works undercover in the Middle East to expose human rights abuses of migrant workers. He investigates the reasons why Africans choose to migrate to the Middle East, Europe and America, and traces the severe consequences of countries closing their borders to African migrants. A migrant himself, first to the Middle East and recently to the US, Kakande is the author of two books: Slave States, an expose of the enslavement, trafficking and abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region, and The Ambitious Struggle: An African Journalist's Journey of Hope and Identity in a Land of Migrants.
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