The Mediterranean refugee problems for over the past years have been increasing more and more. In the book there was a lot of talk about the crossing of an invisible line though more importantly who made this line. Refugee’s that have been forced from their own land to move to countries like Egypt in hopes to reach Europe. Over the years there has been over 2,500 migrants that has died either from the hands of the hands the people responsible for transporting them, too small boats, beating, drowning, and shipwrecks. In 2005 there was a strike force from Malaysia that was able to hunt down and fight against the unauthorized immigrants.
In 1948 the racial discrimination was very well known, in Africa there were more privileges for white than for the native Africans. There were laws that restricted non-whites and whites to wed in Africa for this time era, and the restricted some work opportunities to “whites only”. In the year of 1950 the Population Registration Act required
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They both essentially have the same ending. As people, we should not feel as if we are superior to others just because of their skin color, or native land. The segregation of those with different skin tones is just allowing it to be okay with the praise of one and the slander of the next. It is not and has not been a good socioeconomic climb for us who still think and act as such. “The U.S – Mexico border is completely socially isolated from the rest of the United States” (p. 28). The slaves essentially made what we know as an underground railroad. In the 1990’s Europe put up a fence to keep irregular migration under control. With the threats of security and new technology it has made it harder for migrants to cross over. Since the waters of the Mediterranean aren’t so safe to travel, this route has been the least expensive yet the most