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1. Characters, Backgroud story
2. Setting
3. Plot/Events
4. Conflict/Problem
5. Solution
Here are some helping links:
* https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-54153398
* https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/listicle/13-powerful-refugee-stories/
* https://www.msf.org/refugees-around-world-stories-survival-world-refugee-day
* https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/emergency-response/refugee-children-crisis/refugee-stories
* https://iamamigrant.org/stories

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*She is 16 y.o., comes from ırak havice. She is living in a small town. She wants to go to school, but because the family background and the war she can not.

She wants to study and use her artistic skills, wants to be succesful abroad to help other women in her country, have a family and grow up her children in a better place.

She is part of an international organization that will help her to go abroad and develope her idea/skills. Her family do not know that she is involved in an ngo. When she can she meet them.

It is very difficult to be part of the organization and try to go abroad because the war situation and the family. The parents will not allow her to leave.

With the positive influence of a member of a international ngo she will be able to convince her family to let her go abroad to follow her dream. She will get help for her visa.

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1. Characters, background story:
He is from Sri Lanka, and he needed to leave his country because of a civil war.
His mother died when he was young, he used to live with his father.
He didn't have a good relationship with his father. After a while he was sent to his aunts.

2. Setting
Nuwan was born in Bingiriya, a small town in Sri Lanka. After he turned 18 he went to Yemen, then Hong Kong. After some prison time he traveled with boat to Sicily, traversing the Suez Chanel. Finally he arrived in Naples, the city where he is living rite now.

3. Plot/Events
He left his country thanks to few money his father landed him but also thanks to his saving ups. He tried first to go to Hong Kong from which he could have left his country but he was arrested because of his fake passport. He was sent back to Sri Lanka from which he succeeded to go to Italy on a sailing boat with 5 other guys and with the cooperation and coordination of Russian Mafia. After one month and a tough experience of travel he succeed to reach Sicily first where he met his cousin. Then, together they reached Pozzuoli (a small town close to Napoli) but he wanted to reach Napoli as his favorite city in Italy.
He was lucky enough to get a job (which would have let him get a Working Visa to stay in Italy legally) thanks to a rich widow. From there on, he founded other jobs such as the Hostel night guard.

4. Conflict/Problem
As mentioned above, he hadn't a good relationship with his father, that should because of the lack of his mum. She passed away when he was young. The other things he suffered from is that he wasn't been paid enough, because of refugee standards. He got night shifts.

5. Solution
The solution for Nuwan to overcome his problems are working hard in order to make more money to achieve his dream to go back to his country and start a restaurant.

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The story of Omar
25 years old from Syria. He studies Computer Engineering. He comes from Arben , which is a small village in the countryside. He is a very talented and smart guy and he speaks the English language very well. He is very funny and sarcastic. He loves photography.

He used to study in the University, but things were getting more and more difficult every day because of the war. Some of his relatives lost their properties and their jobs. It was hard to see a future in his country.

In 2017, through the University and with the help of the Church he managed to apply for a student visa. During the process he met 7 other guys, with whom he would move together in Italy. When he arrived he spent 6 months in church accommodation with these guys. He struggled at first, because no one spoke English and he was only spending time with the other Syrians. But he managed to learn excellent Italian, graduate from the Italian University, move to the Capital and find a job.

Nevertheless, the association that helped him move was trying to protect him too much. They get him to "live in a bubble" with the other Syrians. They use him a success example in order to promote the association work and he was feeling like they wouldn't let him go and move on.

Finally, in 2019 he graduated and found a job. He became more independent and managed to improve his relation with this association. He is now starting his Master's and he is integrated in the local community, having a lot of Italian friends.

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Our protagonist's name is Amina, she is 28 years old and she is a Yemeni refugee currently living in Spain. Amina has a university education, and in Yemen, she was working in the government. When the conflict broke out, in 2015 in Yemen it had resulted in the largest humanitarian crisis; parties to the conflict have killed and injured thousands of Yemeni civilians. She fled as her life was in danger. She made it to a specific city in Spain by foot, and there she asked for asylum.  Her parents think that she is in Egypt, they have no idea that she is so far away from home.

She was later moved to another city in Spain, where she sometimes felt alone and isolated due to not finding enough ways of integration where she could meet other people: both Spanish people, as she wanted to get closer to the culture and understand different points of views, and people closer to home, as sometimes you feel a little homesick.

Slowly, she found different places where she could express herself and integration methods. One of her favorite places to express herself is in football matches, especially when they scream “GOAL!”, because she says she can “express herself in public” something that, as she said, where she is from, is not socially accepted. She found other places, like an Association where she met other refugees, migrants and Spanish people, were she felt welcomed and listened to, and where she could talk about what it felt like to be a refugee.

It is very important that we create spaces where refugees and migrants can integrate themselves, as it can be very isolating. This way, they can meet both local people and others who are in their same position, so they can feel listened to while also learning about the local culture.
Because of Covid19 she is currentrly unemployed but she is looking for a job.

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Name: Marc  Luckinbill

Character: He's 25. He comes from a poorish family, he was working in a farm as a peasant and because of this work he was very tired and he got into troubles.

Background story:
He lives in Oran. He has four siblings, his father is missing, he is the eldest and that is why he has so much pressure on him.

Antagonist: Marc has an evil alterego, named Deni Ilev who pushes him to do bad things, such as getting involved in drug dealings/fights.

Motivation: he lives with and for his family, he doesn't save up any money,ò and his alterego is pushing him to do illegal things and also for adrenaline/the thrill of it.

What are the reasons behind migrating?
For a better life, for his family and because of Europe.
He doesn't have enough money, and due to his alter-ego character he does illegal stuff and he decided to run away (he got into troubles) and he thought in Europe there were more opportunity.
Before leaving he was being a drug dealer. He was dealing with maryjane, HEROine, and hashish.

SETTING:
He left Oran 4 years ago: he got into troubles with another gang and he was in the wrong place in the wrong time. Somehow, he managed to run away but the other people knew where he was living and because of that, he decided to leave the country to be safer, and to get money. Another reason for leaving was caused by his family, who got in a danger area as well.

PLOT:
He had to face many difficulties to arrive to Italy, he takes a boat and during a storm he managed to approach Italy, in particular on the Sardinian shores.
Unfortunately, he's very sick and he needs to be cured.
There is an internal fight, where Marc wants to say the truth because HONESTY ALWAYS PAYS BACK, but Deni wants to lie because he heard that if you're a minor you can access the healthcare system and you have more rights.
Once he recovers, he is hosted in a PSRAS. He struggles to integrate himself within the society. He wants to work and do something, to send money back to his siblings.
He got into a dispute with a moroccan, because of their countries differences: on the one hand Marc thinks that we're all equals; on the other hand Deni wants to have a fight, because he's frustrating.

He is risking to get to jail but luckily something happens: Marc cannot go to jail because he said he's a minor. Thanks to Deni, Marc has the opportunity to go to an education center, where he learns italian, he is doing vocational trainings, with the promise to get a job once he become "legally" major age.
As time passing by, Marc realises that if it wouldn't have been for Deni he would have failed and probably forced to go back home, where a lot of troubles where waiting for him. On the other hand, Deni realises that if you are good with other and you live in a friendly environment, you will see the light at the end of the road.
Marc faces this path of acceptation of himself, becoming a better person, finding a job once he turns 18.
When he starts working he decides to send remittances to his own family.
Nowadays, Marc has just started working, his family is doing great, he knows a new language, and he is buying a house.

SOLUTION:
Sometimes, honesty pays back, but some lies can help you get through something, even though this means doing something "illegal", such as having basic human rights.

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He was 16 y.o. when he moved from Bangladesh to Cagliari. He lived in a poor family and moved to Italy looking for a better life.

He reached some members of his family in Cagliari living in a small flat whit other 10 people (relatives/friends) and started to learn Italian from them. During the night life he went to the pubs, bars, restaurants or in the main streets of the movida selling flowers. He was very good in English so when he did not know some word in Italian used English. He was very funny, always smiling, with a very good sense of humour and very friendly.

Thanks to his behaviour Raju started to have a lot of friends in the city and they often invited him to lunch or to play football or just to go out. Day by day his Italian was very good as his Sardinian language.

For sure the racist events were present during his night job but thanks to his smile and his friends all over the city he went out from this episodes in the best way possible.

Raju when was 24 y.o. moved to Nuoro to work in a kebab shop. Nowadays thanks to his funds of the previous years and to a regional fund he works in his own bar. When he was in Cagliari moving from pub to pub during his job, he stole some skills from the barman friends. He is married and have 2 kids and he is totally integrated in the sardinian lifestyle.

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1. Characters, Backgroud story
He was in his late twenties, living in the communist Romania. He is originated from a Hungarian family from Romania. He fled his country to seek better opportunities abroad.
2. Setting
In the 70's he was living in Romania with his family, in the western part of the country. He had on ordinary life, but could not accept living in the communist regime so he decided, he will leave the country.
3. Plot/Events
One day he met some German tourists who gave them an address and told him that if he wants to flee the country one day, he can find them on that address and they will help them. A couple of weeks later, he traveled to the eastern side of Romania, where he paid a sailor to let him get on his cargo ship where he can hide and leave the country. He had to swim into the open see during night to get onto the ship, but he managed and hid there. After a couple of weeks, he got off from the ship in a small French town. We asked some locals where is that city, which he had the address from. It was around 60kms from his current location, so he went there on foot, but he had to illegally cross the German-French border, which he managed. In Germany he got arrested for being there without any paper but after a couple of days they have set him free. After that, he reached the address, where he met the tourists he met in Romania, the next days he applied for the refugee support system at one of the embassies, which allowed him to start a new life. Since then, he is living in Germany and has a family there. Sometimes, he comes home to visit his relatives.
4. Conflict/Problem
He was living in a country which was under a communist regime and was lacking the opportunities. He decided to start a new life, leaving his life and loved ones behind.
5. Solution
He grabbed the hidden opportunities life gave him and believed in his goals, which eventually paid off, he managed to create a life he wished of when he was young.

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Αt the age of 16,  he left Senegal due to extreme poverty. he had lost both of  his parents, he decided that he had no other solution than to leave his country.

He crossed half of Africa, Sahara, Libya, he faced a civil war, he was tortured and sentenced to death. He escapted his execution, but his problems didn't stop there. He was sold as a slave, he managed to get away again in a plastic boat with 120 more people. they were saved by a boat in the middle of Mediterranean.
Then he arrives in Italy.

Within 3 years he finished school, learns perfect Italian. He wrote a book that was published  and he actively participated in solidarity projects to help others. His book "Bread and Water" that can be found only in Italian,  captures not only the horrors of Libya and of his travel,but also the structural causes that lead thousands of Senegalese to emigrate.

He narrated a story that happend to him at his fist job in a restaurant in Venice. They were giving him 300 euros for 11 hours of work. He was no longer considered a minor so his protection was expired. His boss knew that he had no other option so he forced him to work for so many hours without being properly paid.

He was etremely strong to overcome all this difficulties and step on his feet starting from scratch...