A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditi…

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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self. ✨ Hay Festival 2012: Salman Rushdie on security and The Satanic Verses by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 3, 2012.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self. ✨ Hay Festival 2012: Salman Rushdie on security and The Satanic Verses by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 3, 2012.

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