Ayala: Ukraine war exposes double standard on refugees
A Ukrainian woman cries as she holds her baby in a relief center at the train station in Lviv. Images like this one have galvanized an outpouring of support in the West for Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion of their country. Non-white, non-Christian refugees often have not been treated so generously, writes Express-News columnist Elaine Ayala.
Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said, reporting live from Kyiv. “This is a relatively civilized, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully, too — city.” It has been moving — and a stark contrast to the treatment often afforded Black, brown and Muslim refugees. The world picks and chooses which strangers deserve a welcome and which do not.We’ve seen how governments, reporters and ordinary people decide one refugee is human and worthy of welcome while another is not.
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