Maria Amelie is 25 years old today and has spent more than eight years of her life in Norway. As an illegal immigrant, she can't visit a doctor wenn ill, she can't buy prescription drugs, can't get a student loan, can't open a bank account and can't travel abroad on holiday together with her friends. Though during her illegal stay, she has been able to graduate from high school, become a Master of Science at the University of Trondheim (NTNU), work as a volunteer at many different music festivals in Norway and earn her living by cleaning house for different families. Maria Amelie is like any other person - a person with hopes and dreams. She chose to tell her story. Her only alternative was to buy a fake passport and live the rest of her life in fear of getting caught.
If your opinion is set on that all illegal immigrants without any exceptions should be expelled from the country, then you definitely should read this book!
Have a great read !!!
It is strange to read about her fate in our country that should be free and democratic. Without papers, however, you are no human being, it seems!
ReplyDeleteI feel it is a shame to be Norwegian after seeing how they treated her.
The authorities claim her case having been handled according to the principle of "equality versus the law". But the law about foreigners contains a lot of freedom you may either apply for or against a person. In her case they consistently applied every rule against her. Any rules that could have been applied to her favor was not applied.
Maybe our government wanted to chase her out of the country because she was a wiitness to inhuman practice. With her well-written book she plainly was too dangerous...