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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“I have managed to establish myself quickly”
“It’s easy to fail in a new country.”
“You can still see the marks from the rope on my arm”
My name is Mona from Baghdad and I am 27 years old. Mother to two children. I live in Malmo, recently two years ago.
I was born in Baghdad. My dad was a communist and he raised me and my 4 siblings in a different way from the tradition in Iraq. The woman has her rights and lives in her own way. I grew up with these thoughts from my dad. But when I got older, my thoughts broke with the society in Baghdad.
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Dublin Core: Language: sv Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“We could have drowned at any time”
“I tried to save him”
My name is Omar, a Palestinian dentist from Gaza. I came to Sweden during the last war in Gaza 2014 and have lived here for almost three years.
I never thought I would leave Palestine or Gaza. In my country there is no electricity, sometimes no gas, no medicin, and we are sometimes locked in, but still I love my homeland and miss it. But I had to flee because our house was bombed. Sometimes when I watch videos from Gaza I start crying, I miss it.
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Dublin Core: Language: sv Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“I had to experience the winter and it was very cold”
My name is Bave and I am a kurd from Qamishli in Syria. My life was very good before the war. I went to school as usual and went out with my friends. Our life was much nicer than life in Europe. The war came and destroyed our whole life. It was a shock.
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Dublin Core: Language: sv Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“We risked our lives to come here”
My name is Ali and I’m 17 years old. I’m from Afghanistan and I’m a refugee in Sweden. First of all, let me start by telling you why people flee from their home countries. One of the reasons may be that some people lack human rights. In Afghanistan, there was a war that lasted for several years. The war became worse during the summer, so that’s why I left my family at the age of 13. Continue reading ““We risked our lives to come here””
Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“They hit me with the weapon on my fingers”
“Hurricane”
My name is Hakam and I am from Hamaa in Syria. I left Syria in early 2012 hoping to do something in Tunisia, but unfortunately, I did not manage to find work in Tunisia because their rules are difficult and life was tough.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden“My wife was injured and passed away two days later”
My name is Mohamad, Palestinian from the Yarmuk refugee in Damascus. We decided to leave Yarmuk when it became uncertain in the area, 90 percent of the Yarmouk population fled. I saw people die in front of me. My house was destroyed and my wife was injured and passed away two days later.
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Dublin Core: Language: swe Subject: asylum, refugees, A Million Stories, Sweden