Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Moorehead is a biographer and journalist. She wrote a fortnightly openDemocracy column telling stories of refugees and asylum-seekers between May 2002 and December 2003.

Sudanese adrift in Israel

Akoon is 25, a tall, very thin young Sudanese with several missing front teeth. He was orphaned in 2002 when militias attacked his village in southern Sudan and murdered his

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 4 Aug 2007

The Chaldeans of San Diego

Rouada, Rani and Rania are the three teenaged children of Iman and Sabah, Chaldeans from Baghdad who arrived not long ago in San Diego to join a large Chaldean community

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 17 Dec 2003

From Mexico to California, and back

Imelda is neither a refugee, nor an asylum-seeker, nor even, at the moment, an exile. She is in limbo, displaced by poverty and circumstance, a woman for whom migration is

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 19 Nov 2003

Y.K.L: abused in Ivory Coast, rejected in London

Bouafle lies in the centre of Ivory Coast. Y.K.L. was born here, the only daughter of a police officer and member of the Ivorian Party of Workers. Until

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 22 Oct 2003

Burundi: a life in fear

J.R. is a thin, small young man. He comes from Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, where he was a student at the university until April 2003. Since then, his

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 5 Oct 2003

M.L.: Russia eats her children

M.L. last saw her 11-year old son Jean-Majjis on 12 January 2003 in a St Petersburg hospital, where he had been taken with severe frostbite to his hands and

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 15 Sep 2003

The never-ending journey

On Monday 4 August 2003, K. and E. received a letter from Britains Home Office, the government department which deals with immigration matters. It informed them that, together with

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 25 Aug 2003

Inderjeed Singh: lost in Kabul

Inderjeed Singh Kaboor is a Sikh from Jalalabad, a city in Afghanistan that lies between Kabul and the border with Pakistan. In December 2001, he fled to the United Kingdom

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 21 Jul 2003

Afghanistan: land of widows

Anja, Fatima, and Salima come from the same village in the highlands of the Hindu Kush, not far from Bamiyan and its shattered Buddhist statues. They have known each other

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 22 Jun 2003

Uganda: women in flight

This is the story of three young Ugandan women, H.N., who is 23, R.L., 22, and M.K., 19. They have never met, but all three arrived in

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 21 May 2003

O.N.: between limbo and the City of the Dead

In theory, O.N. is now a free man. Arrested nine months ago in Cairo on suspicion of currency laundering and spying for Israel, and sentenced to three years in

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 28 Apr 2003

The peopling of London: how they become we

Demo against racism in London, 1994 In the year 959 CE (Common Era), the peaceable King Edgar of Wessex, father of the future King Ethelred the Unready, was criticised by

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 23 Apr 2003