Following an intense and sometimes dangerous journey, the final destination for refugees often falls short. There is a sense that what is supposed to be “home” could not feel less so. “You change your country, you go through a weird journey and then you are stuck in a weird place,” says Abou Kasem. “You cannot really interact with the German people. It’s not closed, you can go out, but you feel somehow that you’re treated like a different thing. But after you are out of the camp, it’s normal. Those feelings start to fade away.”
Mrs. Genova is a times journalist that writes about the nature of the daily life of a Syrian refugee. Since she does not have direct credentials to add her own input into the story she utilizes primary quotations to add to her credibility. I think it is also important to note that that Syrian refugees do not live a sort of utopian lifestyle once they are out of their war torn home. Not to say that other countries, in this case Germany, are worse, but to note that restarting a new life in a new land with a new language is not easy either. Realistically, if there is going to be a long term solution there will need to be some sort of assimilation program, and/or a way to rebuild Syria if and when the wars are all but over.