{"id":343221,"date":"2025-08-14T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:56:14","slug":"a-journey-to-belonging-asylum-seekers-reflect-on-10-years-in-europe-in-pictures-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343221\/","title":{"rendered":"A journey to belonging: asylum seekers reflect on 10 years in Europe \u2013 in pictures | Art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, 1 million people fled into Europe, escaping conflict and poverty. Many had travelled for years in search of peace, prosperity or stability, and found it in countries such as Italy, Germany and Belgium. But the journey to truly belong continues.<\/p>\n<p>A decade on, after finding work and learning a new language, four asylum seekers feel torn. They recall the woodlands of northern Nigeria, a river that flows through a Syrian town \u2013 or the nightmare of child abuse in Afghanistan. They are still homesick and wrestle with the possibility \u2013 or impossibility \u2013 of return. They are part of a new, transformed Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten years ago, 1 million people fled into Europe, escaping conflict and poverty. Many had travelled for years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[16466,1789,2766,2000,299,5187,1824,2199,6657,6658,1259],"class_list":{"0":"post-343221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-art-and-design","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-migration","17":"tag-refugees","18":"tag-uk-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115025817360126752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}