Present-day migrations are often triggered by political and or economic crises occurring as a direct result of colonial rule, neo-colonialism, or decolonisation. For the reasons specified, it may be argued that feelings of displacement and discontinuities, already experienced by human beings who unwillingly and forcibly took part in the Atlantic slave trade, are still experienced by contemporary migrants upon arriving in Western, ‘civilized’ countries. If contemporary migrants after a perilous, long journey manage to reach a Western society, one that in most cases “colonized [and] plunder[ed] for centuries”2 their countries of origin, upon their arrival they are regarded as unwelcome outsiders. The imperative forms of “Look. Listen. Learn.” employed by Phillips to describe the senses of displacement and bewilderment felt by African slaves who were allocated to overseas lands to become the property of colonisers, represent, at the present time, three of the numerous key words that characterise the “Refugee Tales” self-advocacy project.