Does she believe Europe will want her, I ask, given that she arrived through illegal passage.
"Let them say that I came in an illegal way," she replies "but if they ask me and hear my story, they will understand my pain."
They will not understand your pain; they will apply “the law” in a hostile climate of a Europe that has seen a rise of the far-right and economic stagnation. They will look at you as the Other, the undesirable, and a threat to their standard of living, and their superior nation-state. They have already forgotten what the immigrant workers have done during the pandemic.
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