Quote:
no one leaves home unless. home is the mouth of a shark. you only run for the border. when you see the whole city running as well.
Source:
Warsan Shire (2011): Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. UK: Flipped Eye Publishing.
Author Bio:
Warsan Shire (born 1988 in Kenya) is a Somali-British author.
Context:
Warsan Shire deals with flight and migration experiences in a literary way. In the poem from which the quote comes, motives, ambivalences, conflicts, hopes, feelings of guilt, the spirit of optimism, partings and other emotional states are named and given as reasons for migration. The poem is a subjective report from an emancipated and self-determined perspective, which recounts the decision to flee and documents the migration process from a first-person perspective.Further Reading:
*glokal e.V. (2017): Willkommen ohne Paternalismus. Hilfe und Solidarität in der Unterstützungsarbeit. Berlin.
Year:
2011