How do you deal with the phenomena of being “too American” for your home country yet “too xyz” for the United States?
Where do you find your safe place/sense of home?
Do you even have one? Is this even possible?
Do you find yourself compromising aspects of your cultural background?
In my…
And you think it’s time, delighted
Eagerly seize pen in hand and
Triumphant, begin to create, or
Reiterate:
Scribbles which began in Greece,
Detoured through Paradise, won
Stage-acclaim in England, and
Preened at a Paris salon,
Before arriving in America,
Where red wheelbarrows
March 1936. “Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle” — evidence of the forces that were driving thousands of farm families in Texas and Oklahoma to the West Coast in the great Dust Bowl migration chronicled in “The Grapes of Wrath.” Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein. (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive :: Doomsday: 1936)
The brown suitcase you carried across the seas was small, but your heart large, and your eyes as bright as one thousand realisations.
Other Voices meeting: Migration and sans-papiers on Flickr.
Zoé Genot
Photo of Abu Kalam, an ethnic Rohingya, as he prepares to leave Burma by boat. Images by Jason Motlagh 2013 via the Pulitzer Center
By Leonard Doyle
Abu Kassim believes there is only one way out of a desperate situation he and his ethnic Rohingya family find themselves in -
‘Citizen’ by Anthony HaugheyExhibition Opening in High Lanes Gallery, Drogheda 8th February 2013
All photographs are copyright of Anthony Haughey