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Sunday, February 7, 2021

Life Inward A Refugee Camp


It is belike impossible to accurately depict the despair of life inwards a refugee camp. However, amongst the emergence of unsafe politicians inwards the westward who are willing to exploit concerns near immigration, it is becoming to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than of import that journalists practise examine to communicate what life is similar for those trying to flee country's ravaged past times state of war as well as terrorism.

This American Life as well as Submarine Channel should last applauded for their fantastic efforts to depict refugee camps as well as the lives of those forced to alive inside them.

This American Life sent a squad of of architects as well as engineers to map as well as depict a break of refugee camps inwards Greece. Hellenic Republic is habitation to over 57,000 refugees. Most of them directly alive inwards over xl refugee camps dotted unopen to the country.

Hockey & Baseball Refugees is an online documentary exploring the province of affairs faced past times refugees living inwards Greek refugee camps. These camps are housed inwards an abandoned beach resort, an Olympic baseball game stadium, an air strength base, a highway residual terminal as well as the grounds of an former psychiatric hospital.

The Hockey & Baseball Refugees documentary uses a collection of aerial views, oblique views as well as architectural drawings to furnish visual tours of the v featured camps. These visual representations of the camps are accompanied past times photographs as well as videos documenting the atmospheric condition inwards the camps. The accompanying text includes descriptions of life inwards the military camp as well as firs-hand accounts from some of the refugees forced to alive inwards them.


Domiz Refugee Camp inwards Iraqi Kurdistan was established inwards Apr 2012 to host Syrian Kurds. The military camp was originally built to household 38,135 people. It is currently habitation to 57,953 refugees. As the break of refugees has grown the military camp has gradually transformed from a temporary refuge into a makeshift town.

Refugee Republic has created an online documentary near the camp, using the Leaflet.js mapping platform to plough a mitt drawn map into a fully interactive map. You tin give the axe click on the colored roads as well as arrows on the map to acquire to a greater extent than near life inwards Domiz Camp. The tour includes videos of the camp, data on how the military camp as well as shelters were constructed as well as the stories of some of the refugees directly living inwards Domiz Camp.