Is There a Big Peace of Thinking About Immigration and Thinking About Boarders?

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"We can imagine a better situation. Absolutely, we can imagine it and then em and then take steps enact thet yes s e," she says. "I think to educate yourself is really important... And to see, oh, at the moment right now in the u k. And they've started to out sorce their refugee processing facilities to rowanda." 'It's interesting that just about a hundred years ago, when it was like, european men with like, a ruler and a few pens decided where everybody belonged,' he adds.

On a list of the least funny topics imaginable, the global refugee crisis, border disputes, and questions of citizenships are probably close to the top. And yet comedian Maeve Higgins has spent her career finding ways to make jokes about (and make sense of) the ways we draw lines across the globe. She’s a standup and a writer who speaks from the point of view of an Irish immigrant in the United States. In this episode, she talks about ways we can find funny and eye-opening vantage points to look at the realities and borders of the world, our place in it, and how imagination and laughter can help us through tough times.