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In autumn 2015, over 20,000 young Afghans arrived in Sweden. 2017 was the year when many of them were told they could not stay in the country. Fatemeh Khavari was 17 at the time and became a leader for thousands of young people. They founded the organisation Ung i Sverige to stop deportations to Afghanistan.

Fatemeh Khavari is among the most vulnerable people in the world. She is a girl. She is from Afghanistan. She was born as a refugee. She is Muslim. She wears a hijab. She is Hazara. But she refuses to let that hold her back.

This is a story about what a life on the run does to a person. About building a grassroots movement of society’s most vulnerable. About the struggle and organising to finally be able to settle down somewhere and start living, not just surviving.

Fatemeh Khavari tells her own story of this struggle, from those first lonely days at Mynttorget in late summer 2017, right up to her own 18th birthday celebrations in a Sweden that is recalling its embassy staff from Afghanistan whilst deportations continue.