{"id":185,"date":"2017-05-15T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/layersoftime.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:42:40","slug":"home-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"home … \/ part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep on wondering how people who have left their country under gruelling circumstances and then have to live in very crammed spaces that were not made to accommodate people for such a long time, how they manage to keep on living without losing their mind \u2026 How is it to live a small space with people you hardly know, or don\u00b4t know, without any real perspective, constantly worried about your future, your friends and family that you left behind, without the possibility to work, without privacy \u2026 in a place where the people who live there do not really care for you nor want to have you there and blame you for everything bad that is happening \u2026<\/p>\n

A friend of mine (Judith Affolter, who took the pictures features in the article) made me aware of this: http:\/\/www.woz.ch\/-793d<\/a> \u2026 Putting up refugees in the \u201cmiddle of nowhere\u201d does not strike me as the best of\u00a0 ideas \u2026 Every \u201cencampment\u201d makes me think of a prison and having large numbers of refugees living in one place is always going to create tensions. Is there a solution to this? I don\u00b4t know, but I wonder if many problems could be avoided if people fleeing their home countries and arriving here, probably heavily traumatised, and without possessions, were housed in smaller buildings, all through the city, in every kind of neighbourhood. The tendency to house them \u201cout of sight\u201d or in poor neighbourhoods, were people who live there already feel disadvantaged , seems to be a recipe for disaster. These are short term solutions, but without any considerations for long term effects, and long term is a big word here, negative consequences of short sighted politics can, in this case, be seen after a couple of weeks\u00a0 already \u2026.<\/p>\n

My grandparents met some helpful people during their time in Silesia, but there were quite some locals who resented those foreigners \u2026 even if they weren’t\u00b4t there by choice \u2026 Silesia was a poor place then, and I read some reports that say that many of the deported people from Luxembourg had taken their good clothes with them and wore them and consequently looked richer and better off then the local population \u2026 leading to jealousy and resentment\u2026\u00a0 Rather ironic considering that the Luxembourgish people there were forced to be there, forced to work, constantly monitored and punished for the most ridiculous reasons \u2026 often ill and always scared of what might come next \u2026
\nOne can see the same twisted reasoning and baseless jealousy here, people who call\u00a0 refugees \u201cSozialschmarotzer\u201d while they themselves are on their way to collect unemployment money\u00a0 \u2026 (the bus I take to my studio passes a place where refugees live and the (no-)job center next door \u2026 ) .
\nAnd remarks like: \u201cwhy do they need mobile phones?\u201d As if being a refugee strips you from all your rights and needs and makes you something else \/ less then human \u2026
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I keep on wondering how people who have left their country under gruelling circumstances and then have to live in very crammed spaces that were not made to accommodate people for such a long time, how they manage to keep on living without losing their mind \u2026 How is it to live a small space …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/layersoftime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}