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I didn’t think there was another country that I could manage to live in

Male, 29 years old, from Lattekia Syrien, now living in Sweden Malmö.

I’m from Lattekia in Syria and my whole family are there.
I don’t know how where I will start my story, but I shall tell what happened exactly and what made me flee from my country. I was living in Syria in Lattekia, and I was working and it was a normal life, together with my family. It was right after I finished my obligatory military service, and at this time it was my plan to get married and to work and live a normal life. Then the events began in Syria. Continue reading “I didn’t think there was another country that I could manage to live in”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, military, refugee,
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I have to think ahead, not only about the current situation

Mohammad Daoud, 36 years old, from Syria.

I live here in Malmö with my family. We came here to Sweden, to Malmö in 2014, but not directly from Syria. We came from United Arab Emirates. I lived there for 10 years before coming here to Sweden. Continue reading “I have to think ahead, not only about the current situation”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, sweden, refugee, education, teacher,
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It was difficult to live apart from my husband

Woman, 23 years old from Syria. Now living in Denmark.

My husband fled Syria in 2012, because of the dangerous situation and the fact that the police had captured him. From this time, I didn’t see him until the end of 2016, where we met in Malaysia. We had not seen each other in four – almost five years and this was one of the only places in the world that we could meet at that time. Continue reading “It was difficult to live apart from my husband”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, syria, denmark, refugee,
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I feel like it is a gift from God

34-year old woman from, Lattakia, Syria,

I want to share my experience with raising my two kids in Sweden instead of in Syria.

I’m from Lattakia in Syria, like my husband. Every woman dreams of having children, and some people get kids right after marriage, while some people wait a little. After we married, we decided to wait a little to have kids, because we wanted to get to know each other better first. Continue reading “I feel like it is a gift from God”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, sweden, refugee,
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“Human rights are the biggest lie”

My name is Ayad, and is from Syria. I came to Sweden 2015. I am currently studying Swedish. The Employment Service does not help finding jobs. We want jobs that do not need Swedish. Sweden sells weapons to fighting parties in Syria. We die from these weapons. Human rights are the biggest lie.

Continue reading ““Human rights are the biggest lie””

Dublin Core: Language: sv, eng Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden, Syria