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The much-desired residence permit.

« I’m telling you, for seven years it was like we didn’t exist at all. […] The last six or seven years since we got our papers, we’ve settled down. A lot. […] After I gathered the social security stamps and got my first papers I think I was relieved. I thought that I had achieved something. »

Fatmir (33, Albania )

« Yes, illegal. Like you don’t exist, like…you know, without a country, without a name, without any right in the world. I mean just to survive. Understand? Because if you don’t have papers and nobody knows who you are and, you know, if something happens, you can’t go [probably to the police or to the hospital, etc], because you don’t know what to tell them. Who are you? The "undocumented" person? The illegal one? »

Sokratis (29, Albania )

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