Immigrant
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I am an immigrant, currently living in Luxembourg. With no background in the finance industry that would help me to better integrate into the Luxembourgish society, I have started this blog out of a passion to write about subjects I care about.
Immigrant
3y ago
Things We Carry on the Sea
by Wang Ping – 1957
We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother
We carry soil in small bags: may home never fade in our hearts
We carry names, stories, memories of our villages, fields, boats
We carry scars from proxy wars of greed
We carry carnage of mining, droughts, floods, genocides
We carry dust of our families and neighbors incinerated in mushroom clouds
We carry our islands sinking under the sea
We carry our hands, feet, bones, hearts and best minds for a new life
We carry diplomas: medicine, engineer, nurse, education, math, poetry, ev ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
“The imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man. By this faculty he unites former images and ideas, independently of the will, and thus creates brilliant and novel results” Charles Darwin
Image by Angelo Gargano
It is well known that humans are terrified of unknown. This incertitude not only unleashes your imagination, but it also radicalizes your mind pushing you to take actions that you wouldn’t have considered otherwise. The speculations scare you more than the actual, while the media is staging an untouchable, undebatable and supreme crisis. So, you are trapped, confined, you ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
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The virus outbreak that emerged in Wuhan, China created a global emergency in front of which, as some might expect, the states were not prepared. With media’s reports and WHO declaring the rapidly spreading virus a pandemic, the people developed an overwhelming feeling of panic through social contagion.
From negation to anxiety and fear, the situation is rapidly changing as the states are taking extreme measures to contain the virus. So, what can be learnt so far from watching, listening to, and witnessing this crisis?
Learning solidarity through deeper ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
The open borders have given us the opportunity to study, travel and settle anywhere within the European Union, a privilege that our parents dreamed and fought for. Now, we are certainly living different times, but while we are enjoying all these rights, we are also facing heavier burdens, responsibilities and challenges such as coping with irregular employment.
Image source: Tomi Ungerer Collection, Ireland, courtesy of the Drawing Center
On one hand, the cultural diversity of cities intrigued us, yet on the other we become more competitive and forced to adapt to an unfamiliar syste ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
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Going through COVID-19 pandemic surely will have a lasting impact in every aspect of our life. The worrying headlines with their terrifying numbers; The world leaders’ statements that makes you think you are fighting a war; All other crimes that apparently ceased to exist; Doesn’t all these make you wonder if there is more to it than you can perceive right now? Or at least, doesn’t it make you stop for a moment to question what you see around? Recently someone reminded me of a poem by Rudyard Kipling called ‘I Keep Six Honest Serving Men’. It made ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
There is no doubt that migration can be a wonderful experience. It enriches our knowledge, makes us culturally aware, empathetic towards different communities and consequently grows us into better selves.
But while one can build magnificent memories at the opportunity of traveling the world, for the others migration arises as a forced instrument due to dramatic changes in the political and economic system or, as an outcome of conflict and wars.
Whatever the reasons are, as per UNFPA 244 million people live today outside of their country of origin.
Image: ©2015 – All Ri ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
Tibetan National Flag
The Old Man and the Evening Sun
by Kunga Rinchen
It was a rainy day
I went by the narrow way
The sun had nearly set
The ground was still wet
There was an old man
Who lost interest
To see the sunset
I asked him once
Where are you looking at
He answered me
I am looking at the east
But the horizon is foggy
And my vision is blurry
I asked him once more
Why you looking at the east
Since the sun is setting west
Which is not last any more
He was trying to tell me something
But he was crying saying nothing
My heart was crying loudly
But I smiled him ruefully
T ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
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We were seven, from different corners of the world, gathered by dreams in the same workplace. So young and unexperienced, naïve to many extents, yet determined and cheerful. Long working hours, six days a week, commuting between two cities, often saw us exhausted without much power left end of the day. But we were united, and to what we knew – supportive, after all, we were all sailing the same boat.
It took us time to stop quivering at every post on Facebook from the ones back home, from wondering if we took the right decision and if it will be worth t ..read more
Immigrant
3y ago
GO MOTHER, I PROMISE I WILL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING!
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…said the Romanian girl with the newly received ID in her hand as she just turned fourteen.
Weeping slowly the mother failed once again to cover her sorrow; she was looking at her still freezing hands that started to pus after so many icy-cold evenings at that café where she worked as an accounted also. She struggled so hard to provide her house, searching for motivation in the smallest things, like the gas supply for the old lamp used for lighting up the modest apartment during electrici ..read more
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3y ago
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The democratization processes during the Arab Spring brought with them the biggest migration crisis in Europe. Unprepared for such events, the EU continue to fail on its assimilation, integration and ultimately de-radicalization policies. This can be understandable in a way, given the fact that none of these countries were ever involved in offering a smoother transition to their migrants, nor had they interest in this regard.
The economic migrants that settled in a foreign country prior to that succeeded, or not, partly due to the cultural s ..read more