So I know my recent posts have been quite “politics-heavy,” so to speak. It is strange to think of how when I first started this blog, I was too scared to even mention a political party, or their views on immigration, but as time went on, we can all agree that politics and migration have somewhat become my central focus. The two have now become heavily intertwined: people in politics have made immigration a key issue in their platforms, while the way in which people will move around Europe is becoming increasingly dictated by the policies made by those in power.
But in the end, the mobility of people in this world is not all about politics, or perhaps when studying said mobility, one needs to be able to take a step back, once in a while, and take a look at the overall picture.
That is why I am choosing to highlight this recent report from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) detailing asylum trends for the first half of 2014 in this post. Reading it has not only help to further my understanding of asylum seekers and how they move, but it helps to bring me and this blog back down to earth: it removes the politics from migration, and helps me to see the bigger picture of mobility in this world nowadays.
Source: UNHCR
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