The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir Who Got Trapped In An Ikea Refugee Analysis

Throughout history many innocent people have fallen victim to crisis ravaging their homes, and have had to leave everything behind to get to safety. In The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, by Romain Puértolas, the main character Ajatashatru finds himself on a similar journey as a refugee. They do not pose a threat to the security of a country, nor do asylum seekers, and resettling them is advantageous to everyone. Lastly, our treatment of refugees needs to reflect our morals and values as a country. For these reasons, Canada should
I can attest to the fact that Canada is hard to enter – even tourist visas are given with immaculate attention to detail. As a result, people with extensive criminal records
Canada therefore has a moral obligation to help those seeking asylum. The tough situations they live through are evident in Aseefa’s stories, “Ajatashatru imagined the Africans leaping, cat-like, out of the night, and landing in the moving trucks that had brought them [to France]. Aseefa had admitted that they would slip inside the trailer of a truck…preferably while it was raining [to silence their movements]” (90). As a refugee from Sudan, Aseefa had travelled stuffed in a box, scared for his life. The Western world has pride in our values, yet our treatment of refugees is in stark contrast. It is very important that we aid them to the best of our abilities. Additionally, asylum seekers are treated akin to fugitives, rather than people who lack what is necessary to survive, yet the government is unable to decide if they require assistance. Aseefa experienced this first hand: “[They were] helped to a great extent by Red Cross volunteers who gave them food to eat and a place to sleep… To the police, they were illegal aliens; to the Red Cross they were people in need” (81-82). The police would monitor how many meals the Red Cross providing and target people who left their countries of origin in the hopes of a safe home. Allowing more refugees to immigrate to Canada shows that we care, rather than closing off borders and leaving thousands of families helpless and