‘Everyone Around Me Thinks That I’m Crazy for Wanting to Come Back’

‘Everyone Around Me Thinks That I’m Crazy for Wanting to Come Back’

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. These days, antipathy to migrants can seem akin to gravity — an obvious, eternal and immutable truth driven by the laws of human nature. But it’s actually something that happened very quickly. In less than a decade, begun in 2016 by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and consolidated by Donald Trump’s return to th…