I have never scrambled in the dirt for food in a refugee camp. I’ve never wished for the coast while looking over the prow of an overcrowded boat on the Mediterranean. Nor have I hunkered down in a crumbling Ukrainian apartment complex, hoping the next bomb doesn’t land closer.
But because today, June 20, is the United Nations’ World Refugee Day, I want to talk about those who have.
Read the full opinion piece by UNESCO Crossings Institute research fellow Jonathan Bach in the East Oregonian here. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect those of the UNESCO Chair or the University of Oregon-UNESCO Crossings Institute
