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Being a refugee in East and in West is different. Iran and Pakistan gives the Afghan Refugee poverty, ill health and no education but it also gives them acceptance. West gives un-acceptance, inferiority and bureaucracy but it gives a relatively certain future, better health and education.
Being a refugee is about making compromises, it is to choose the lesser of two evils. Afghans claiming asylum often escape as their lives and human dignity gets in danger and in return they choose to live in an alien country where no one understands them, where they are seen as burden.
I want to go back to Afghanistan but having spent four years in London, I fear returning. London has absorbed me. I do not know if I am a Londoner or an Afghan. I love both Afghanistan and London but they both reject me, Afghanistan through its wars and hardships on me as a woman and London through its alien culture and loneliness. Afghans long for a sense of belonging, we wish for a stable life, we wish we had a certain future. But all this is not possible in a refugee’s life.
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