Yasin Kakande: What's missing in the global debate over refugees
יסין קקנדה: מה חסר בוויכוח העולמי בנושא הפליטים
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
much freedom of movement
who are desperate enough
לגבי אלה שהם נואשים מספיק
and stormy seas in boats.
from West Africa and North Africa face
שלי ממערב ומצפון אפריקה
but fortunate opportunity
a gathering like this.
what often is missing
את מה שלעתים קרובות חסר
welcomed newcomers,
את המהגרים החדשים,
numbers of individuals
is that the newcomers upend the stability
מערערים את היציבות
in their countries.
look towards politicians
פונים אל פוליטיקאים
to see who can claim the prize
לקבל את התואר
of populism and nationalism.
מסרים של פופוליזם ולאומיות.
is the toughest on migrants,
projects in building walls.
של בניית חומות.
symptoms of the problem,
על נקודות המבט שלהם,
would be willing to listen.
and inequalities inflicted regularly
וחוסר-שוויון שהופעלו באופן קבוע
from the governments
as a journalist in the Middle East.
כעיתונאי במזרח התיכון.
puts everyone at the risk of starvation.
מביא את כולם אל סף רעב.
for my brothers and sisters
serious plight as migrants.
about me writing a book
מכך שאני כותב ספר
when I still worked in Dubai,
עוד כשעבדתי בדובאי
to pay for his treatments.
לשלם עבור הטיפולים שלו.
to sustain his treatment,
to take him to a hospital.
אישפוזו בבית-חולים.
to lay it in the ground
לקבור אותו באדמה
that are multilayered is never easy,
חוסר-צדק ברבדים רבים,
more than just rhetoric.
farms in Africa continue to be owned
are shipped to the West,
will flow continuously.
that could ever be so rigorous
that has determined our human history.
שהגדירה את ההיסטוריה האנושית שלנו.
for reconciling, finally,
in creating a more just global economy
כלכלה עולמית צודקת יותר
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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