Over the past decade, more than 400,000 asylum-seekers have come to Holland. Many of them were fleeing war, torture, or political or ethnic persecution. Large numbers of them were traumatised […]
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In 1988, a civil war broke out in Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Nearly a million people had to flee the fighting. Some settled in other African countries, but […]
We all feel the need to belong, but what is it that shapes our sense of belonging? What happens when we’re transplanted to new cultures where we form new […]
Our guests in this programme are from many different backgrounds and countries: Iraq, Tibet, India, Pakistan, Australia and Surinam. They all live in the Netherlands, and they have different answers […]
Home is where the heart is. What if your heart lies somewhere in a territory just beyond your reach? What if you are an exile, an immigrant, a refugee? What […]
Guinea has opened its doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees, despite its extreme poverty. In the spring of the year 2000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees urged […]
Five years ago, fighting began in the heart of Europe: the Balkans. Over a quarter of a million people were killed during the war in the former Yugoslavia and nearly […]
In the wake of the genocide in Rwanda in the spring of 1994, hundreds of thousands of people fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo or Zaire, as it was […]