About Refugees, By Refugees

Carlos Damseaux

and there’s like that emptiness inside.” Carlos also encounters racism in Spain, but faces it with empathy and understanding. His perseverance, stamina and endurance help him cope in a new

Immaculate

…her happiness and her girlfriend is also a source of “joy always.” But while Immaculate feels “free in the heart” in the UK, she says she’s “still in the struggle”…

Azadeh

Azadeh Iranian Iran “My dream is that Iran becomes free one day,” says Azadeh (pseud, 35).“We are all imprisoned.” The humanities professor came to Germany after fleeing religious and political…

Adel Al Nabelsi

…kill anyone.” In his new European cultural context, he is frustrated by assumptions made about refugees: “We are not poor, we have a situation in our country [that] make us…

Abdull Hossain Hassani

…hell… my children could not sleep because they were afraid.” When the refugee camp where they stayed burnt down, the family moved to a new one, where they share a…

Tahmineh

Tahmineh Iranian Iran “We Iranian women are not coming from a direct war… where there are bombs, tanks and guns. We have been at war from the time we were…