Refugees escaping injustice shouldn’t apologize for seeking justice wherever they go

Refugees escaping injustice shouldn’t apologize for seeking justice wherever they go

We carry the label “refugee” because the place where we were born is a prison surrounded by walls, and the places we try to reach limit and classify us. Our existence is not accepted in the places we leave or the places we arrive.

We weren’t always refugees.

Being a refugee is a life imposed on us because we don’t have the right to live in our own countries, we have to emigrate. Leaving the place we were born is not an outcome we choose, it is a journey we started because we had to. We are trying to escape from our home country because of war, hunger, harassment, inequality, the list goes on.

In short, we are running away from injustice. But our path never leads to justice. Because our stories don’t start fair and equal from the moment we are born. We are the potential prisoners or the expected victims of a possible murder (by war, conflict or starvation) of the countries of which we are citizens, through our lifestyle, beliefs, sexual identities, thoughts, what we write or say.

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