Yasin Kakande: What's missing in the global debate over refugees
Yasin Kakande: ¿Qué falta en el debate global sobre refugiados?
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
viviendo en EE. UU.
mi solicitud de asilo se apruebe.
much freedom of movement
de mucha libertad de movimiento
who are desperate enough
a quienes con desesperación
agitados y turbulentos.
and stormy seas in boats.
from West Africa and North Africa face
de Africa Occidental y Africa del Norte
but fortunate opportunity
única y fortuita
a un grupo como este.
a gathering like this.
what often is missing
lo que a menudo falta
países huéspedes,
recibían bien a los recién llegados,
welcomed newcomers,
en el número de individuos
numbers of individuals
is that the newcomers upend the stability
los recién llegados alteran la estabilidad
y del empleo en sus países.
in their countries.
look towards politicians
voltean hacia sus líderes políticos
para ver quién puede ganar el premio
to see who can claim the prize
populismo y nacionalismo.
of populism and nationalism.
is the toughest on migrants,
quién es más duro con los migrantes,
prohibiciones de viaje
de construir un muro.
projects in building walls.
symptoms of the problem,
abordan los síntomas del problema,
compartir su perspectiva,
would be willing to listen.
tuvieran voluntad para escuchar.
and inequalities inflicted regularly
las injusticias y desigualdades
sobre la fuerza laboral migrante.
from the governments
de los gobiernos de esos países
as a journalist in the Middle East.
como periodista en el Medio Oriente.
puts everyone at the risk of starvation.
ponen a todos en riesgo de inanición.
por mis hermanos y hermanas
for my brothers and sisters
más graves como migrantes.
serious plight as migrants.
about me writing a book
que yo escribiese un libro
a la deportación y el desempleo.
when I still worked in Dubai,
cuando yo trabajaba en Dubai,
para pagar sus tratamientos.
to pay for his treatments.
pagando su tratamiento,
to sustain his treatment,
to take him to a hospital.
internarle en un hospital.
to lay it in the ground
en brazos para enterrarlo
un precio muy alto
that are multilayered is never easy,
more than just rhetoric.
más que simple retórica.
farms in Africa continue to be owned
petrolíferos y granjas a escala en Africa
de inversionistas extranjeros,
are shipped to the West,
sean enviados al Oeste,
will flow continuously.
seguirá fluyendo continuamente.
that could ever be so rigorous
that has determined our human history.
ha determinado nuestra historia humana.
puedan ser reforzados
restricciones de visado,
una conversación más abierta.
for reconciling, finally,
para reconciliar, finalmente,
in creating a more just global economy
a crear una economía global más justa
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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