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The Journey of a Refugee: Stories Behind the Headlines

A refugee story rarely fits neatly inside a news cycle. Headlines compress years into a single image, a single sentence, sometimes even a single number. But behind each headline there is movement that is uneven and exhausting, choices made under pressure, and a human life trying to reassemble itself in a country that may feel both familiar and foreign at the same time. When people say “the refugee experience,” they often picture the journey as a straight line: leave, arr