Unveiling Hidden Realities: Anna Badkhen’s To See Beyond Challenges Perception and Truth
“…living in a makeshift camp pits migrants not merely against the natural world but also against the structures charged with protecting it: Environmental concerns — or their pretense — become yet another cause for the sedentary to persecute the migrant.”
The migrant’s plight and the environmental plight become a single knot, a loop with no logical conclusion or humanitarian end. So too, the real migrant and the migrant in literature become enmeshed, showing how the tale remains true and complicated in either scenario. Badkhen never hews far from what is intensely human. That is her anchor, even as everything else shifts, as she weaves her own migratory experience into the larger context:
