WHY DO PEOPLE FLEE THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND LEAVE EVERY THING BEHIND?

BACKGROUND OF DISPLACEMENT :

• Involvement in politics?
• Persecution by government?
• Fundamentalism?
• Being a woman?

Poem by Aisha:

I am an asylum seeker

My name is asylum seeker

I was born in here

Here in the detention center

The center is covered in wires

The wires is 1, 2, 3

1 is the wire of closure

2 is the coiled barbed wire

3 is the protection wire for 1and 2

3 is the razor wire on top of 2

3 is the high defense

The higher defense

Which stops birds coming inside

Stops thoughts and imaginations

Which stops the world outside

The higher defense which becomes the border between me and the United 

Kingdom

I am asylum

I was in this center

The center is in Dover

Dover is far from Cardiff

It has security inside

Are there people from all over the world there?

No

Not from everywhere

There are no Americans, no Irish; there are no French, no Belgians, no 

Germans, there are no Japanese inside.

It's a multicultural center but it has only one culture inside

a third world culture

I am asylum

Born detained but not to be detained

I am thinking

How did I get here?

How did I find myself here?

Here in the detention center

I don't even know why I'm here

Nobody tells me why I'm here

I am asylum, in the detention center, in Dover, in the United Kingdom

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