Literature and Migration

This book has enlightened me a great deal. I have been reading it when there was the refugee "crisis" and refugee reception crisis . Have been reading it when I have been unemployed for almost ten months. And it makes me think about what my late mother said when I was born, as was the third one and the latest (long years between my older brother and sister): "the world is large, she should live, too". People thought she was brave, in fact, she thought larger than life. Well, this is not an article about having kids but it is about what lives mean for us, what others' lives mean for us and what life could mean if we thought it a bit differently, if we were a bit open-minded and open-hearted. There are many themes in this book amongst which he also talks about migration and how some people are seen as "human waste" by the countries that would not want to receive them. How it is possible to think of others' lives less valuable than ours when t