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The story of Paddington Bear is the story of a refugee
>But there’s an unexpected political angle to this news, too. Because Paddington Bear isn’t just any beloved children’s character. He’s an illegal immigrant.
>Paddington Bear arrived in London in 1958 with nothing but the clothes on his back, a suitcase full of marmalade, and a sign that said, “PLEASE LOOK AFTER THIS BEAR. Thank you.”
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>“You’re a very small bear,” says kind-hearted Mrs. Brown when she finds him in Paddington station. “Where are you from?”
>Before he replies, Paddington looks carefully around for authority figures. “Darkest Peru. I’m not really supposed to be here at all. I’m a stowaway.”
>“You’ll be one of the family,” Mrs. Brown promises him, and she takes him home with her.
>Paddington was inspired in part, Michael Bond has said, by his memories of watching evacuee children pass through Reading station from London during the Blitz. “They all had a label round their neck with their name and address on and a little case or package containing all their treasured possessions,” he told the Guardian in 2014. “So Paddington, in a sense, was a refugee, and I do think that there’s no sadder sight than refugees.”
>Immigration has been part of Paddington’s story from the beginning, but it became more explicit in 2014, when the movie adaptation of Paddington hit London just as pre-Brexit antipathy toward immigration was ratcheting up. One review was titled, “Why Paddington is anti-Ukip propaganda.”An immigration lawyer reviewed the movieand concluded grimly that “I would … assess Paddington’s prospects of success before an immigration judge as virtually zero.”
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