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.
Guinea is a country of many natural resources, for the most part untapped. Yet, its seven million inhabitants are among the worlds poorest people. In its far eastern region,
D.T. was born in a small village in the mountains of southern Serbia, divided by the border with Macedonia. D.T. himself lived in the Serbian part of the
R.S. is a Jehovahs Witness, a tall, thin young man who feels intensely the cold of the English winter. He comes from Ghana, where his parents, who belonged
Map of Uganda CIA World Factbook 2002 on Uganda
W.L. is a farmer from northern Uganda, a married man with three young children. He fled his farm after learning
When Adaf was very young, her mother used to sing to the children about her life in Palestine, before the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), when the Palestinians fled their lands and
R.N. is a young woman in her early twenties. She is elegant, her dark brown hair braided close to her head, her make-up and clothes neat and fashionable. Her
The village of Logari what is left of it lies a hundred yards off the main road between Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, in the Shalima valley. No single house is still
Jawad is a teacher, a slight young man, 22 years old, with the high cheekbones and somewhat slanting eyes of the Hazara people. After fourteen years of exile, he returned
M.G. was a schoolgirl, sitting one evening doing her homework in her boarding school in Northern Uganda, when she heard shouts and confusion outside. There were several girls in
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Soon after reaching the UK in the summer of 2001, Q.G. met another Chinese girl like herself, seeking asylum from what she believed was inevitable