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.

B.E.: the price of loyalty

There is just one thing that B.E. thinks about: how she can be reunited with her children. There are four of them, and the youngest is a baby just

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 25 Mar 2003

F.A.: no home in the world

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,

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 10 Mar 2003

Between camps: the story of D.T.

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 24 Feb 2003

R.S., from Ghana to nowhere

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 10 Feb 2003

Uganda: the ordeal of W.L.

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 20 Jan 2003

Adaf: a Palestinian in Lebanon

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 16 Dec 2002

R.N.: shadow under the Congolese sun

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 2 Dec 2002

Haji A.J.: returning to Afghanistan

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 15 Oct 2002

A.G.: in exile from Kosovo

A.G. was born in a small town in northern Kosovo, to an Albanian father and a Serb mother. He was an only child. Since his father was Albanian he

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 24 Sep 2002

Jawad: an education for life

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 30 Jul 2002

Out of Uganda: the story of M.G.

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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 16 Jul 2002

China: beneath the lacquer

Click for bigger image 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

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 25 Jun 2002