Jahre der Angst, Momente der Hoffnung

How exile, foreignness and discrimination shape feelings
"From the balcony, I looked out onto a playground where children my age were running around and having fun. After a moment's hesitation, I asked them if I could play. The answer was: 'No, we don't play with foreign children. I don't remember how I felt at the time. In retrospect, it was clear: in future, I would look in the mirror and recognise a foreigner."

It is events like these that produce feelings of marginalisation:
Fear, shame, anger, despair
but also
longing and hope
. The
historian Mohammad Sarhangi
analyses the extent to which the diverse experiences of migration shape and form the feelings of migrants - even across generations. He impressively interweaves his own experiences with oral history interviews and autobiographical and literary publications to create an insightful and moving book.