Former child refugee retraces the steps she made to the uk 28 years ago (Lonely Planet Travel News)
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‘Before leaving, Mevan interviewed her parents so that she could revisit places they recalled from the original journey. Her mother specifically requested she eat at McDonald’s on Moscow’s Pushkin Square – ‘all the refugees met in the square to share information and find relatives, and my mother remembered it because the McDonald’s on the corner was the very first one in Moscow. The trip was filled with small and personal moments like that.’
‘Through retracing the route she took as a child, she already feels she is better able to understand her own identity. ‘For a long time I didn’t feel comfortable saying that I was British or Kurdish,’ she said. ‘I think the way I’ve changed from this trip is that I now feel unapologetic about saying that I’m both.’