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“Where is home when you´re told to go back home?”
― Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

tags: albanian, career, corporate-culture, danish, diaspora, home, identity, immigration, kosovo, kosovo-war

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#2

“To belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time. To carry one home in memory and another in daily life!”
― Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

tags: belonging, existence, home, identity, immigrant-experience, refugee-experience

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#3

“MY EMPATHY IS NOT A VIRTUE, IT´S THE SCAR OF MY SURVIVAL”.”
― Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

tags: denmark, empathy, kosovo-war, survival, womahood

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“A refugee does not leave their homeland for fun. They leave to save their lives”
― Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

tags: albanian, childhood, kosovo, refugee-experience, refugee-voice

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#5

“IT´S NOT ALWAYS THAT I FEEL DIFFERENT. I AM JUST REMINDED OF IT.
CONSTANTLY.
THAT BELONGING HAS CONDITIONS”.”
― Lena Rexhepi, But Where Are You Really From?: Foreign there, Foreign here: From Kosovo to Denmark

tags: acceptance, belonging, conditions, foreign-policy, identity, politics

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