I am writing this post on behalf of me and them. You, the reader, will probably ask yourself, who am I, and who are the ones.
– We are the ones who no longer lives in the war, but are now living in a situation of uncertainty. We are the ones who stand in front of a dark unknown future.
– We are the ones, as the government’s paradigm shift framework. We are the ones, which the government’s shift in paradigm is stealing the future from.
so begins Rahima A, 18-year-old syrian refugee, who has been here for three and a half years and just now reading on Herningsholm Gymnasium a letter to the nation! to be affected by the paradigm shift. Rahima is a kurd from Syria and has written the book ’the olive branch about the war in Syria, and she has previously written about why the people of Syria can find on that journey home – and why they are not there. See also: Therefore: People do not travel to Syria for a holiday, but to help the family And she has written See also: Rahima: Probably the teen that gets the most negative comments in Denmark about how it is to participate in the udlændingedebatten.
Now, she writes about she feels that she has wasted the last three years, because she because of the paradigm shift is to be sent home no matter what. Her letter continues thus:
– and I have done everything to be integrated and contribute positively to the Danish society.
– I am the daughter of a man who is trained as a doctor, but where the municipality has refused to pay for the teaching of English, educational level three, and thus give him the opportunity to be able to work as a doctor in Denmark.
– in Order not to get the cash assistance, he chose to go a completely different way. He chose to open his own shop just to work, earn his own money and be an active citizen in society.
Now I stand here with a great many unfinished thoughts and horrible memories from the war.
– I can’t remember a day where I have not been in combat for one or another case. In Syria I fought to survive. Here in Denmark I’m fighting to show that I am a good person, even though I am a refugee and a muslim.
I and many other refugees, struggling and crying out loud, we are people first, then the refugees. We chose not to be involved in the war. We chose not to leave our homes, our country and our family, but we were forced to it. It was the war that forced us. We chose not the war, it was war, it chose us.
We fled from everything, since the bombs fell, our hope was Denmark. Now we live here in peace, but we must every day prove that we are good enough to be called for the new citizens.
– Here in the Danish soil, we have fought hard to learn the Danish language and becoming integrated into our ”new country”. We have done so for many years, because we were told when we came here, that we should spend our time and effort to learn the Danish language and be integrated.
– After a hard struggle, for the integration we get suddenly to know that we are guests here, and to our residence all the time will only be temporary no matter what in the past we have been given in view.
– We are told that we must be ready to be sent home at one time or another, regardless of how well we are integrated, regardless of whether we are in education or training, or work and pay taxes to the state, regardless of whether we are active citizens or welfare recipients, and whether we are political refugees or war refugees!
– We get to know that the majority of the Danish parliament agreed on, that we are unwanted in the Danish society and never will be able to get permanent residence. We get to know that integrationsydelsen from now on shall be called for hjemsendelsesydelsen.
– In an indirect way we get to know that we are wasting our time, when we learn the Danish language and struggling to be integrated and accepted.
– We get to know that the democratic Denmark, we dreamed about to get to, has a government in which the majority agree that the poor shall be poorer, and that all refugees, including those who have done everything to be a part of Denmark, to be sent home as soon as possible.
We hear how many are using the negative generalisinger, when they talk about us in the parliament. We see how those who defend us in the parliament, being reprimanded.
– I and a great many refugees who did not hear about in the media, have been integrated and are struggling hard to contribute positively to the Danish society.
– I and many other refugees have taken away from the refugees and the muslims who are doing crime.
– We also believe that they should be punished, because we all agree that we must show respect for the community that protects us against the war.
– I hope that In the not forget that among these refugees are some who have born children in Denmark. We have refugee children who have lived almost their entire lives here, feel at home and not have any remembrance of their short lives in their home country.
– We have refugee children, where Danish is almost their first language. Dear all, how do we explain to these children that they don’t belong in Denmark and is unwanted here?
For SF, Alternative, Island and B, I want to say thank you for your good opinion about us. I’m really happy, because there was no one who defended us in the parliament and told the other that the paradigm shift deals with human rights. But I’m also really sorry that there was not more.
– I’m really sorry about is that it is Denmark, who protects me, has a parliament, of which 76% voted yes to the inhumane paradigm shift.
– The new paradigm shift makes me feel that I have wasted many years of my life to use them to learn English and become integrated.
– For the majority of the Danish parliament, which voted in favour of the paradigm shift, I would say now would be very like to celebrate it with beer and cake for the In fought hard for has been adopted.
– Now we will constantly live in insecurity, in order to be able to be sent home at one time or another. It will have serious consequences for the integration, and perhaps that is what you want.
My only hope right now is that people will tick the right place for the next general election for Denmark deserves a better government.
Wealth can mean many things. Wealth is not only the economy. A rich country is the country that is both rich in economy but also rich in human values. Take good care of your human values, writes Rahima, but what are you thinking?