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Waheed Arian: Perceptions of migration

09/01/2023 GMT

Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world

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Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child

Stephen Sackur interviews Waheed Arian, a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child. Do perceptions change when the story of migration is personalised?

War and extreme poverty drive millions of people from their homes every year. Some of them try to reach the rich Western world, where such inward migration routinely prompts fear and draconian counter-measures. Stephen Sackur interviews Waheed Arian, who fled war in Afghanistan as a child, made it to the UK and is now a doctor running his own medical charity. Do perceptions change when the story of migration is personalised?

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