Happens Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of…

— Ban Ki-moon

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed…

— Joseph O'Neill

When you come from an immigrant home, you're in a whole different world until you leave your house. In my teenage years, I had…

— Jessie Reyez

The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned;…

— George Washington

Migrants make huge contributions to both their host countries and countries of origin. They take jobs that local workforces cannot fill, boosting economic activity.…

— Antonio Guterres

It's our roots that really give us our identity.

— Rosalia

I am a fairly mongrelized person - you know I've been a migrant my whole life, and it's hard to think of myself as…

— Mohsin Hamid

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

The sense of belonging is revived only among foreigners

— Abdullah

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Look at the children of the land leaving in droves, leaving their own land with bleeding wounds on their bodies and shock on their…

— NoViolet Bulawayo