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Narratives of displacement is an initiative by Atlantic Fellows, including @JohnnyMiller/Unequal Scenes to document the lives of refugees. Currently, the photo narratives feature Syrian students living in the Za'atari camp in Jordan. Read more here - https://www.narrativesofdisplacement.org/community
An excerpt from one of the founders, Durkhanai Ayubi -
"Amongst the global cries of crises and amidst the frantic building of protective walls (both material and emotional), it is worth pausing, to ponder why displaced people can be both simultaneously seen and unseen. The question in my mind which begins to explore this, and which I believe forms the basis of many of our present dilemmas, is a philosophical conundrum of our times – how can such grave suffering take place, during an era which is being defined foremost by advances in human capability?
The price of human capability, it seems, is a hardening against vulnerability – an erasure of the very essence of what it means to be human.
For as long as the suffering of displaced people remains openly and globally visible but always unseen – my lament for the displaced is a primal wailing for us all.
For we are each one another, and the erosions of humanity dislocate and displace us all. And so, my quietly persistent hope, rests on the capacity for an expansion of the same imaginations we have used to conjure our fragmented world into being. It rests upon a remembering – that all the capability and technological advances in the universe combined, cannot circumvent the most human expressions of all: our very innate fragility, our interdependence and the inevitability of our suffering. And nor should it try."