Safe Routes for Refugees: One Woman’s Unlikely Journey from Afghanistan to the UK

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In January 2021, Zahra Shaheer had to get out of Afghanistan… fast. So when she had the rare opportunity to secure safe passage for herself and her two children, she made the heartbreaking decision to flee, even though it meant leaving her mother behind. Now, Zahra and her mother remain separated by thousands of miles, and insurmountable policies that are designed to prevent her mother from reuniting with her family in their new home in the UK. David Miliband from the International Rescue Committee joins us to look at the history of global refugee policy, and the importance of safe routes as more displaced people seek safety around the globe than ever before. To learn more and take action, click here, and join Ben & Jerry's in calling for safe routes here. Into The Mix has been nominated in the Signal Awards for Best Public Service & Activism podcast! Vote for us below to help support the show. Voting closes on October 5. https://bit.ly/itmsignal

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0:00.0	This is Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice.
0:09.0	Produced with Vox Creative.
0:11.1	I'm Ashley C. Ford.
0:12.1	Would you like to have some Afghani tea, British tea?
0:17.4	I know now that we have British people served tea.
0:20.4	Afghan tea sounds delicious.
0:22.6	Green, black, saffron.
0:24.6	From the moment the team knocks on her door outside of London,
0:28.6	Sara Shahir is an exceptionally generous host.
0:32.6	I've never tried saffron.
0:34.6	Yeah, that sounds delicious. Thank you.
0:36.6	You all? Sounds good.
0:38.3	Thank you.
0:39.3	Saffron tea for you as well.
0:41.3	Okay.
0:42.3	She's smiling and warm, ushering my producers Martha and Taylor, out of the cold and
0:48.3	into the comfort of the flat she shares with her two young children.
0:52.3	That it is some Afghani pastry.
0:56.0	I baked last night for you.
0:59.0	And some Afghani dry fruit, like green raisins, which you don't have in the UK,
1:03.0	black raisins and something else.
1:06.0	As the grassy, burnt honey aroma of saffron fills the living room, swirling around photos of her parents
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