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Xenophobia is a common phenomenon in many countries that experience an influx of immigrants.The immigrants especially those who do not have legal documents are dehumanized,subjected to sexual violation,others taken advantage of by drug barons.
In the same way , Seffi Atta presents the plight of those people who are determined to migrate to seek for greener pastures and shows how they get disillusioned.
In the dream motif by the narrator's mother he presents the vanity of immigration.She traces an episode where a man had hidden himself in the wheel well of a plane that had overflown overnight to London. The violent battering by the cold wind had led to man's death and his body was deported for burial.She says that migration is a cycle of vanity for one might find himself in his homeland since the world is round.
The problem that migrants go through are .They suffer under the hands of bearded mortem bandicts,the trucks often break down,they are beaten by patrol guards when caught crossing over to Cueta,they are taken back to a camp where they have no meals and medical attention and during daytime they are scotched by the glaring rays of the sun.
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The narrator is desperate to leave Africa and in the process is willing to do
anything possible to make this wish come true. For instance:
- He gives false details on the passport.
- He gives a false name, origin and his national
- He sells marijuana to raise half his fare
- He dupes his boss despite his threats of sending a gang to rape him and slit
his throat thereafter
He has to endure much suffering to get to Gao.
- He hitches rides on highways, sleeps in villages where dogs won't stop for a
piss and has to endure bouts of fever and diarrhoea.
- He must trek up the mountain to get to Tangior
The illegal migrants that the Narrators Mother talk about are so desperate to
leave Africa that they can do anything to get there for instance;
- One man hides in the wheel well of an aeroplane that flow to London and
ends up dying on the way and his body was deported for burial.
- Another one attempts to cross the Sahara on foot. He takes several years
only to be arrested by the security forces when he is about to reach Spain
and has to be repatriated back.
- A Sierra Leonan tries to scale the barbed wire several times until his skin
was practically shredded
- They suffer under the hands of bearded mortem bandits, the trucks often
break down, they are beaten by patrol guards when caught crossing over to
Ceuta, they are taken back to a camp where they have no meals and
medical attention and during daytime they are scotched by glaring sun rays
- The conditions in the camp where refugees hide are deplorable and they are
compared as an open sewer.
In the same way, Sefi Atta presents the plight of those people who are
determined to migrate to seek for greener pastures and shows how they get
disillusioned.
- Despite the gesture of love and generosity extended to her by the narrator,
she makes away with the narrator's money which he has earned through
toiling very hard
The immigrants especially those who do not have legal documents are
dehumanized, subjected to sexual violation, others taken advantage of by drug
barons and others are subjected to humiliation especially when they are
deported either dead or alive.
In a nutshell, the people who engage in illegal immigration are subjected to
violence, betrayal, physical and psychological torture and finally they do not
reach their destiny
The problems that migrants go through are acute. The irony of the situation is
that in case they reach the refugee camps they are engaged in menial jobs such
as servants, taxi- drivers, watchmen, washing dirty plates and toilet seats and
other gruesome chores. The migrants betray each other and patience is quite
hypocritical and insensitive.
Obazee patronises the other migrants and he does not give them room to
express themselves but manipulates them but he does not offer any form of
security because he is equally vulnerable to manhandling by the Gendarmes.
marto answered the question on June 23, 2017 at 08:48
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