Monday, February 1, 2016
Migration assignment - sketches
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Migration_Climate Change Refugees
1."But could this ever happen to a whole country? Will a whole nation ever pack up and leave? If they do, there are a million questions to be answered, micro and macro, apart from the whimsical “Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights?” Can a citizenry exist if its country is no longer on the map? What identifies a country; land, people or culture?"
2."We may have inched closer to something that environmental activists have long been forecasting – the start of the era of the “climate change refugee”: someone who moves to another country when his/hers is no longer habitable."
3.""It acknowledged that the children’s young age made them “inherently more vulnerable to natural disasters and the adverse impact of climate change.”"
4. "An elderly Tuvaluan, now resident in New Zealand was recently quoted in Mother Jones Magazine as saying, "The next generation gets caught by two cultures. Before Tuvalu sinks physically, our identity might sink in a foreign country.""
5."It seems that unique cultures in this sun-splashed region are already under threat, and may go the way of other indigenous lifestyles in Arctic nations. This would be the ultimate irony."
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Migration Sketches -Devon Bragg
https://www.iom.int/migrant-stories/diary-roll-out
So I chose the Article that featured the stories of the children of Agbagorme, who are finally getting the education and healthcare they need. The article talks about how with an education not in only in math, science language etc, but also sex education and becoming aware of child militia, the children 8-20 are becoming all the wiser and healthier. Volunteers got together while there was a teacher strike to teach the children and paint a mural of a tree, to represent growth for the kids.
Kind of in a art block sort of mindset, so more is to come. Still have to do 2 more sketches.
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