Yasin Kakande: What's missing in the global debate over refugees
ヤシン・カカンデ: 難民を巡る世界的な議論に欠けているもの
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
and stormy seas in boats.
from West Africa and North Africa face
西アフリカや北アフリカの同胞たちは
but fortunate opportunity
a gathering like this.
what often is missing
welcomed newcomers,
numbers of individuals
増え続けることに
is that the newcomers upend the stability
in their countries.
不安定にするというものです
look towards politicians
to see who can claim the prize
競い合う―
of populism and nationalism.
is the toughest on migrants,
projects in building walls.
競い合いです
symptoms of the problem,
表に現れた症状に対処しているだけで
would be willing to listen.
and inequalities inflicted regularly
移民労働者が日常的に受けてきた―
from the governments
as a journalist in the Middle East.
ジャーナリストの仕事を失いました
puts everyone at the risk of starvation.
国民が飢餓に瀕しています
for my brothers and sisters
さらに深刻な状況にいる仲間たちの
serious plight as migrants.
about me writing a book
良く思っていませんでした
when I still worked in Dubai,
父は長年糖尿病を患っていましたが
to pay for his treatments.
払うのに十分でした
to sustain his treatment,
to take him to a hospital.
できませんでした
to lay it in the ground
自分の声を届けるために
that are multilayered is never easy,
声を上げることは簡単ではありません
more than just rhetoric.
必要だからです
farms in Africa continue to be owned
are shipped to the West,
欧米に持ち出される限り
will flow continuously.
止まらないでしょう
that could ever be so rigorous
我々人類の歴史を作ってきた移住の波を
that has determined our human history.
for reconciling, finally,
それにより我々はついに
和解できるのです
in creating a more just global economy
より公平な世界経済を作るために
世界経済を作るのです
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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