Refugees in the 21st century, can we find a solution?

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Publication date: 
April 2006

A few months ago in Madrid, I came across a Bolivian woman who had emigrated to Spain, where she was living without any documentation, and was therefore living outside the law in her new home. I askedher why she had abandoned Bolivia. “In Bolivia” –she told me– “nobodywas concerned about me. The State offered no sort of provisions for elderly citizens and if I had stayed, I would have spent the rest of mydays living in poverty and insecurity”.

Author

Lluís Magrinà, s.j. is international director of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).

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