In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.
Dave Mearns, Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
exploitation, greed, loss-of-identity, politics, power, refugees