“If people ask me “When are you coming back home?” I’m kind of like “I am home right now..”Kitty Mamers
“Everything we needed was in a tiny little car and it really looked like Eastern-Europeans moving, you know - the rubbish bags filled with clothes and stuff like that.”Réka Szentirmay
“Looking back now - would I do that again? I don’t know.” Mihaila Alexandru
“I think I will never go back to Poland.”Malina Misiak
“To me it seems almost silly to spend your entire life in one country when you have the opportunity to live all over the world, which is very exciting.”Inta Lankovska
“I didn’t know that I miss home so much.” Triinu Lukas
"I don’t feel like an immigrant here, because I live here and I enjoy living here. For me when I hear the word “immigrant”, somehow I have this image in my head of a person who is somewhere abroad, somewhere in a foreign country, working very-very hard, working lots of hours, getting a good amount of money, but suffering a lot.”Ruta Breikstaite
“We don’t encounter very often people saying “I am proud that I’m from Eastern-Europe.” No. But I hope it will change."Selim Nowicki
“Of course the government paid a lot of things in my life like my education, but on the other side I also think they kind of owe us to give us better chances and better opportunities.”Réka Szentirmay
“Once you’re here... Yeah, going back, moving backwards is not my thing.”Justyna Wdowik
This project was generously funded by the Collecting Society for Visual Arts VG Bild-Kunst and brought to life by Fabian Weiss (www.fabianweiss.com) and Liisi Mölder (www.liisimolder.com).
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