It can be said that migration is essentially an issue of freedom. Indeed, to migrate is to react, it is the expression of a resistance or a submission...
To view forced migration in a genuine manner is in some ways choosing to be transformed by another's migration. Because living (or coming close to) a forced migration means confronting the full (or partial) experience of abandonment, of exile.
So that migrating invites us to migrate... If I decide freely to befriend a forced migrant, becoming a refugee, I venture to migrate outside my borders. The migration becomes personal.
Migration is not a news item, a far-off reality, a tragedy that happens to others. No! Migration is at the heart of my life, of any life. It is the future of my life. Together, let us become hospitable migrants.
Françoise
