Share this Story: Compassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah saysCompassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah saysArticle content CANTERBURY — Europe should greet migrants with compassion rather than barbed wire and the British government is “rather nasty” about those who seek asylum, said Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. Try refreshing your browser, or Compassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah says Back to video He spoke poetically about the experience of migration – of leaving behind family and part of one’s life for a life in a new society where one would always feel partly foreign. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “With greater compassion rather than with barbed wire – rather than a kind of discourse that Europe is going to be destroyed,” he said.

Source: National Post October 07, 2021 18:00 UTC