Family, empire, migrant, refugee.
Alison Leonard writes about historical responsibility
When the refugee issue hit the headlines last autumn and became a crisis some words rumbled at the back of my mind and took shape in the phrase ‘chickens coming home to roost’. Slowly, I began to articulate, in a fumbling way, a line of connection between those desperate people who have lost everything and are begging for something – anything – and my own comfortable family history.
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