Having experienced being
a refugee in a new land, Rahimi and her family are extending a helping hand to other Kurdish refugee families who are coming to Winnipeg from Jordan and Syria.
Not exact matches
The biggest and most obvious: the temporary «soft
landing»
in a
new country, that time after arrival but before permanent housing is being sorted out, when
refugees often stay
in cheap motels.
If they are granted the
refugee status, they leave the centre and start their
new life
in the
new place with this message: Polish
land, and more broadly speaking, European
land, is controlled.
The influx of thousands of
refugees seeking shelter from the raging wars led the then magistrate of the town, James Blake, to allow the
refugees to settle the
land and he helped them establish crops of sugar cane so they could support themselves and enjoy a stable, secure livelihood
in their
new homeland.
Subsequent work, No mans
land in collaboration with Zimbabwean
refugee Alfred Kamanga had transformative impact and received a merit award at the 2013 Sasol
new signatures exhibition.
And
in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change,
in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert,
in which ever more
land is set aside for carbon storage
in the form of forest, and
in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a
new challenge: where will the 2bn climate
refugees find
new homes?