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‘Life Is Not For Everyone’: A Syrian Teenager Struggles to Endure Family Pressures and German Bureaucracy

In Berlin, an overwhelmed asylum system tests the bonds of family and the mental health of young refugees
  • By Thalia Beaty
  • 25 January 2017
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