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NameMaryam
Genderfemale
Country of OriginIran
Destination CountryUnited Kingdom

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s-1 The day I left with my mother was not meant to be the last time I ever saw Iran, or my grandmother, or some of my closest family and friends.
s-2 If I had known I would never be able to return, I would have paid more attention to the little details.
s-3 I would have hugged my grandmother more closely.
s-4 When she died, we could not even return for her funeral.
s-5 In May 1983, my mother, sister and I arrived in New York, three days before my 17th birthday (via India and Britain where we were not given residency).
s-6 The immigration officer confiscated our passports at the airport but let us in temporarily.
s-7 What a relief to see my father again; he had come earlier to prepare for our arrival.
s-8 I'll never forget the day we got to our new home.
s-9 It was early morning when we arrived at our flat - or at least that is how I remember it.
s-10 There were mattresses on the floor and a TV in the living room - that's it.
s-11 My father took us to Pathmark, a supermarket near us, where we gawked at how big it was and that it was open 24 hours a day.
s-12 From that day on, my parents worked hard - starting from scratch; sometimes treated so unfairly.
s-13 I joined university, whilst working part-time, and my little sister started school.
s-14 It was difficult for the first few years, especially for my parents.
s-15 But we were one of the lucky ones.
s-16 Our family was given a lifeline when we were granted US residency and later citizenship - that piece of paper, which is often a matter of life and death, and the difference between being labelled legal and illegal.
s-17 I can't help but remember those years we moved around trying to find a place to call home when I see whats happening now.
s-18 The insecurity and fear still returns whenever I cross a border where I often have to remind myself that my papers are in order.
s-19 I moved to Britain in 2000 where I now live and campaign for human rights, secularism and freedom of expression and belief.
s-20 My retired parents still live in Yonkers, New York in the same flat; my sister teaches at a Yonkers public school.
s-21 Though I have lived outside of Iran more than inside it, it is still a part of who I am.
s-22 But so is Britain where I now live and so is the US where I feel just as much at home when I return to visit my parents and sister.
s-23 Home for me is definitely where one lives and loves and struggles.
s-24 In this day and age, migrants and refugees are often criminalised and dehumanised, and deemed different but the only real difference is that piece of paper.
s-25 Move beyond it and we meet where our common humanity resides.

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