“Sometimes when you have an immigrant background, you don’t know where actually

do you belong,” says Javier, a Nicaraguan journalist and asylum seeker living in Germany, “Some people make you feel that you don’t belong here, but you don’t belong either in your country.” Javier says he left his country when the government began to target the free press. “I feel safe” in Hamburg, he says, but life has been difficult: “I didn’t know anybody. I didn’t have friends, I didn’t have family. I didn’t speak the language.” And he was “really sad. I had anxiety, depression.” But he says there have also been positive outcomes from his experience: “When you leave your country, you obviously, you lost many things, but you are doing also other things that can build your personality.” Now, he dreams of mastering German and finding a journalism job, but mostly “my dreams for a future… to come back to my country,” where he hopes to reunite with his family: “I would like to have a hug.” Full Story

“Sometimes when you have an immigrant background, you don’t know where actually

do you belong,” says Javier, a Nicaraguan journalist and asylum seeker living in Germany, “Some people make you feel that you don’t belong here, but you don’t belong either in your country.” Javier says he left his country when the government began to target the free press. “I feel safe” in Hamburg, he says, but life has been difficult: “I didn’t know anybody. I didn’t have friends, I didn’t have family. I didn’t speak the language.” And he was “really sad. I had anxiety, depression.” But he says there have also been positive outcomes from his experience: “When you leave your country, you obviously, you lost many things, but you are doing also other things that can build your personality.” Now, he dreams of mastering German and finding a journalism job, but mostly “my dreams for a future… to come back to my country,” where he hopes to reunite with his family: “I would like to have a hug.” Full Story