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Diasporas
Follow the routes of exile across different histories, inherited memories, adopted lands, and responsibilities.
Iranian
A diaspora shaped by revolution, repression, and rupture—carrying a deep civilisational memory while negotiating identity, loss, and the hope of renewal beyond the Islamic Republic.
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Afghans
The Afghan diaspora carries the story of a country repeatedly fractured by war, political upheaval, foreign intervention, persecution, and displacement. Across Europe, North America, Australia, Iran, Pakistan and beyond, millions of Afghans have rebuilt their lives while remaining deeply connected to the homeland they were forced to leave. Exile, however, is more than geographical separation. It is the experience of carrying language, memory, family and culture across borders while watching events at home from a distance. For Afghan women and girls in particular, the return of the Taliban has made that distance especially painful, as freedoms once fought for, including education, employment and participation in public life, have been systematically restricted. After Exile explores the Afghan diaspora not simply through the language of refugees and migration, but through the voices of people: women resisting erasure, families divided across borders, younger generations negotiating inherited identity, and communities preserving culture while imagining a different future for Afghanistan. These are stories of displacement, but they are also stories of survival, memory, resistance and belonging.
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Irish
Formed through colonisation, famine, and emigration—an enduring example of how a people can preserve identity abroad while contributing to and reshaping the societies that receive them.
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Other
Exile is not singular. Every people carries its own history of leaving and remembering. If yours is not yet here, you are invited to begin it by submitting your exile testimony.
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