The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/opinion/the-hidden-scars-all-refugees-carry.html
Many people have characterized my novel, “The Sympathizer,” as an immigrant story, and me as an immigrant. No. My novel is a war story and I am not an immigrant. I am a refugee who, like many others, has never ceased being a refugee in some corner of my mind.
Immigrants are more reassuring than refugees because there is an endpoint to their story; however they arrive, whether they are documented or not, their desires for a new life can be absorbed into the American dream or into the European narrative of civilization.
