2021 Articles, Op-Eds & Creative Pieces
Members of the REP Research Team created these articles, op-eds, and creative pieces to challenge your beliefs about refugees, urge you to consider why refugees are pushed from their homes, and ask you to take action to support those flee war, persecution, and more.
Refugees: Why?
By Ishaan Shaurya Chamoli
"Refugees are quite often very different from global stereotypical understanding. While at the moment they seem like the very visualisation of poverty, unhygienic environments, and hunger, more often than not, they - possibly even just a few days back - led a pretty comfortable life for themselves, just like you and I, unaware of what would approach them, ready to turn their lives around… Negatively.
This very contrast gives rise to the question at hand.
WHY?"
Image credit: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times