A Young Woman Refugee On What It’s Actually Like To Cross The Channel

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  1. “I would not want anyone to make that journey,” Zainab says. “It is not safe. But I was also not safe in Iran or Turkey or Greece or France. In France women and children sleep in the streets.”

  2. I sense a lot of copying and pasting this line to the anti-refugee types in my future:

    > It’s a myth that people come here for benefits. They are not enough to live on when you’re waiting and making an asylum claim. That’s not the reason that I came, or that others came. You don’t come to England and live like a rich person. You come because you want to study, to live somewhere safe, to have a future.

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