Amina’s Story
Arriving in 2018 with two children, Amina built a career in law — and her kids found music.
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Razia’s family was scattered by war in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan — separated by a warlord’s advance and by borders that turned a family into four separate cases.
After years of separation, the family was reunited in Toronto in February 2014.
That same year, they were accepted as convention refugees — the official end of a journey that began with flight and ended with the rarest thing in displacement: being together again.
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