By Dana Wilms Being illegal Nowhere to stay, nowhere to go No future perspective No place to call home   You fled your country Living in fear Nightmares still haunt you Waking up in tears   No family left Feeling alone Your knee crushed Days without pain have flown   Day in day out A life so insecure Now you’re selling newspapers Tomorrow a prisoner … Continue reading Being illegal

By Pia Miller-Aichholz     Vincent de Rooij is assistant-professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. He is also a member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) and has done research about the sense of belonging, especially focusing on how language influences our identity. “We have a real problem of translating belonging to Dutch – what … Continue reading Sense of Belonging

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By Melanie Hazenberg In magazine, Here, is a story about the 17- year old transgender boy Aidan. He has always felt different and two years ago he made the decision to change his body to the other sex. Now he feels more home in his body than he ever felt before. Aidan has told his story in the magazine, but transgender is a hard topic … Continue reading Transgender