Banksy’s striking new mural imagines Steve Jobs as a Syrian refugee

“We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it pays over $7bn (£4.6bn) a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.”

—BANKSY

AS SO often the case this year, art mounted in France stands to have global reach.

The latest case is in Calais, the French port city where thousands of newly arrived Syrian refugees are living. Well, if you can even call it living, according to Banksy, the British street artist and muralist.

Through his art, Banksy has been spotlighting the plight of recent refugees, and in perhaps his most striking juxtaposition, he says he has rendered late Apple founder Steve Jobs — whose father migrated from Syria to America — on the wall of a refugee camp, bag and early Apple computer in hand.

The artwork, titled “The Jungle,” is one of several wall works that Banksy created in Calais, all in response to negative treatment of the refugees, reports the Guardian.