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Britain
Sulaimani to Dover: The journey of a young Kurdish migrant to the UK
2021-12-05
Very long, but an easy read.
[Rudaw] The weather was getting cold and wet when Harem Osman (not his real name) arrived on the French coastline in late October, hoping to board a dinghy that would take him to the UK. He had set off from the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq with a group of friends in October, taking a route which had seen him travel through Belarus, Poland, Germany, and finally La Belle France, where he says he could even see the white cliffs of Dover not far from where he was sleeping rough in northern La Belle France.

Harem said that he travelled with seven of his friends from Sulaimani province on a "guaranteed journey" to the UK which cost him 16,000 dollars.
"Life was not easy in Kurdistan, the last job that I did was selling watermelon by the side of the road with my dad," Harem said. "I wanted to come to the UK to work."

Harem and his friends were determined to reach the UK but as he watched and heard the ordeals of so many migrants colonists, mostly Iraqi Kurds, who would jump into inflatable boats from the coastline of Dunkirk before falling into issues and having to be rescued by the French coastguard, he made a promise to find another way to reach the UK.
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