There is so much talk about migrants these days. No one can pretend they didn’t know. I don’t know what we can do about it.\u00c2\u00a0It would be easy to fall into xenophobia. This is part of our sinful inclination. But I remind myself that my ancestors also migrated to escape war and persecution.<\/p>\n
On my father side, my grandmother escaped the spanish civil war when she was a teenager. Her father was a republican. He took his family to safety and went back to fight. He never saw his family again and died later in a refugee camp in\u00c2\u00a0the south of France near Carcassone.<\/p>\n
On my mother side, our ancestors left France for Switzerland. I am not sure when exactly but sometime at the beginning of\u00c2\u00a0the 18th Century. We believe they escaped persecution some years after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.<\/p>\n
It helps me to keep\u00c2\u00a0the balance.<\/p>\n
There’s nothing new about migrations because of war and economic trouble. I am convinced many of us have an ancestor who migrated at some point in their lives and had to find safety in a foreign land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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