<p>'My brother and I have tried to preserve our humanity and keep alive our hope that one day we will find a country which will welcome us and a people who will embrace us.’</p>.<p>This is the remarkable story — as moving as it is inspiring — of two Iraqi brothers who grow up in the midst of unending violence and become refugees, lose everything, yet refuse to be broken.</p>.<p>Born in 1988 and 1991, even as children, they saw their country descend into chaos and impoverishment after the Gulf War, and into bloody sectarian conflict after the US-led invasion of 2003. Civil war and the sudden disappearance of their father eventually forced them to take a flight to India and seek the protection of UNHCR.</p>.<p>But in a country they had been told was a place of tolerance, they became the nowhere people, branded ‘illegal’ foreigners, living in constant fear of being deported and coping daily with a communal situation where they found their Muslim identity was almost as perilous as their Shia identity in Iraq. </p>.<p>This book is the first time that any refugees in India have spoken so candidly and in such detail. Written by a human rights lawyer who has set precedents in refugee law since the 1990s, it is a passionate plea for the recognition of the rights of refugees.</p>
<p>'My brother and I have tried to preserve our humanity and keep alive our hope that one day we will find a country which will welcome us and a people who will embrace us.’</p>.<p>This is the remarkable story — as moving as it is inspiring — of two Iraqi brothers who grow up in the midst of unending violence and become refugees, lose everything, yet refuse to be broken.</p>.<p>Born in 1988 and 1991, even as children, they saw their country descend into chaos and impoverishment after the Gulf War, and into bloody sectarian conflict after the US-led invasion of 2003. Civil war and the sudden disappearance of their father eventually forced them to take a flight to India and seek the protection of UNHCR.</p>.<p>But in a country they had been told was a place of tolerance, they became the nowhere people, branded ‘illegal’ foreigners, living in constant fear of being deported and coping daily with a communal situation where they found their Muslim identity was almost as perilous as their Shia identity in Iraq. </p>.<p>This book is the first time that any refugees in India have spoken so candidly and in such detail. Written by a human rights lawyer who has set precedents in refugee law since the 1990s, it is a passionate plea for the recognition of the rights of refugees.</p>