Photo: Pete Lewis/Department for International Development
These are refugee shelters in the Dadaab camp, northern Kenya, in July 2011. War and conflict deprive people of their homes as they leave the war zone or are driven out. War creates asylum seekers and refugees and migrant peoples in search of somewhere to keep their families safe. Some people arrive in other countries and pass into the system to have their cases heard; but others end up as illegal immigrants often constantly on the move, trying not to get deported. Such people are extremely vulnerable and like so many displaced by conflict, find themselves living a precarious existence, unable ever to go home, though they may long to do so, and finding it difficult to find a new home where they can feel safe and build a new life.
Art and Images (continued)
Here we look at more images of home and homelessness. Continue to consider what the pictures suggest to you or remind you of. What ideas come to mind? Some of these pictures might inspire and engage you; others might challenge or disturb you.
You might like to take or find some photographs of your own and create a collage or album for you or your group to look at. You could perhaps put copies of the pictures around your own group space so that you move around to look at or compare them. In your journey through these resources you could also write down some thoughts and ideas in your journal or blog or, if you are doing this in a group, write some words reflecting your thoughts on a piece of paper.
Ben