“I just want to live my life just like everyone else”
My name is Mansour and I’m 19 years old from Afghanistan.
Even when I was 10 years old, I felt like I was a little different compared to other children, but I dared not tell my family. I discovered that this issue was also forbidden in Iran. I could not stay there either, so I had to flee from Sweden to seek asylum.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“The bed i sleep in does not belong to me”
My name is Hassan from Afghanistan. When I lived in Afghanistan with my family, my dad had a problem with a party called “Vahdati”. He had to hide somewhere.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“I am stateless”
My name is Mohamed and I’m 17 years old.
I was born in Saudi Arabia but can still say that I am stateless. I grew up in Saudi Arabia and taught their tradition. The older I became, it felt like I was not welcome in Saudi Arabia.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“You have to stand on your legs and live on”
“I was on my way to my death”
My name is Khaled and come from Mosul in Iraq. I lived a regular life until the country became insecure and there was no future for me. I studied and worked during the summer. Then Isis entered the city of Mosul and it was not possible to live there anymore and I had to flee. I first fled to Syria and then to Turkey. I fled alone.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“Dad if I die in the sea, I will tell God that it was your fault”
My name is Rashid and I’m a Palestinian born in Damascus. I have lived 9 months in Sweden.
In Syria I lived an ordinary life. I studied and worked in a plastic factory. My family decided to leave the country because of the war. To create a future. As Palestinians we did’nt have a citizenship in Syria.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“I will never forget these three days in the boat”
“It was difficult to breathe and to be completely quiet”
My name is Tariq, I’m 23 years old and come from Syria. Today I live in Malmö.
I lived in a city called Dara. I studied and worked at the same time. I finished high school and I wanted to go to college, but there was no security in the country so it did’nt work.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“I survived”
My name is Josef and I come from Damascus in Syria.
I was born in the Yarmuk refugee camp and studied in UNRWA schools in Syria. Then I studied Economics at Damascus University. As a youth, I was politically active about the Palestinian issue. I was imprisoned several times by the Syrian government because of my political activities. I traveled to Saudi Arabia for 4 years to work as an economist, and then I moved back to Syria. I got married and got 4 Children.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden