John Berger had a line on migrants and poverty…
Thursday, 11th August 2022
• DEPORTING asylum-seekers to Rwanda is endorsed by Sunak and Truss, a shocking reminder of John Berger’s insight into migrants (accepting the Booker Prize, 1972).
“Poverty forces the migrants, year after year, to leave their own places and culture and come to do much of the dirtiest and worst paid work in the industrialised areas of Europe, where they form the reserve army of labour.
“What is their view of the world? Of themselves? Of us? Of their own exploitation?”
MIKE BOR, W2