5/21/2023 0 Comments Go went gone![]() ![]() There’s Rashid, from Nigeria, whose village is attacked and set on fire by Boko Haram: his neighbours and family are killed, and he is forced to go on the run to Niger. That life ends when the civil war begins and hundreds of African immigrants settled in Libya are rounded up by soldiers, put on a dinghy and set afloat in the Mediterranean. There’s Awad, born in Ghana, but sent to Libya aged seven to live with his father. Richard, after all, is more attuned than most to invisible transitions that result in a change of state: he was a citizen of East Germany, until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and he found himself, in middle age, belonging to a different nation.Īs Richard begins to show up at the centres where these asylum seekers are held and moved around until their applications are decided, and to interview them about how they came to be seeking refuge in Germany, a fractured mosaic emerges of the individual lives behind the statistics and the journalistic discourse of “hordes” and “swamping”. ![]()
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