For Me, A Border

in Girlhood Studies
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Lucy Hunt Artist, Freelance lucy.hunt2@outlook.com

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Parwana Amiri Poet, Freelance parwana.amiri112345@gmail.com

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For me, a border is not passing

It is not to pass from one country

If you are not allowed

to take part in life.

     – Parwana Amiri

Contributor Notes

Lucy Hunt's (ORCID: 0000-0002-9704-3503) scholarly interests include ethnography, creative and visual research methods, gender, youth migration, and education. Sensitive to experiences of refugee youth, she was inspired to transform Parwana's powerful words into visual images. Email: lucy.hunt2@outlook.com

Parwana Amiri is a poet and activist. Having fled Afghanistan as a teenager, she spent years living in refugee camps in Greece. Parwana invokes the power of poetry to convey the realities of the refugee experience. Email: parwana.amiri112345@gmail.com

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