Refugees

One of the issues that are commonly repeated in the history of the refugees is the need to prove that they are persecuted. Often, testimonies are not enough, for the “reasonable fear” that they are supposed to demonstrate needs to be validated through documents, or what the lawyer in the article calls “third party evidence.” So, not only does one has to endure the circumstances that compelled one to leave, one has to leave in such a way that enough evidence is gather for one’s refugee status to be granted. The later has a few implications. First, people without a strong enough knowledge of the legal and political system will not qualify for the status, because they would have not had the fore thought of collecting the third party evidence that is required. So rather than any person being persecuted, the structure of and the way in which the refugee system works, caters to a certain population that is instructed enough to know what the system requires from them, but also certain premeditation to know what is it that they are going to do with their lives, unless of course, they are a famous case.

Precisely for those points mentioned about I have decided to post on the story of the Colombian women who are being deported.