Amid the frustration of awaiting possible resettlement, two migrants have built channels documenting their daily lives. And they’ve struck a chord. How Afghan refugees stuck in limbo built a global following. “It’s like a film reel of our life.'
When Faiz Fikri received a letter from an Australian immigration office denying his asylum case in early 2015, he headed straight to the balcony.
Indonesia is a major route for immigrants from Middle Eastern and South Asian countries, including Afghanistan, where they would wait for months and years before getting settled in a third country. But in recent years, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand have significantly reduced their intake.
Last year he came up with the idea for a channel, borrowed money from people he knew in Indonesia to buy a small camera and a tripod to shoot the content.The channel displays immigrants’ hard living conditions and their daily life stories. It often broadcasts the beauty of Indonesia when he gets out from his little flat. The host has a weekly live session on his YouTube for Q&A with his audience in Persian. The channel has more than 7,000 subscribers.
“I am stuck here for six years, with no lights to see forward,” she said by phone, speaking in Persian, as she just finished her live Q&A with her fansIt was Fikri who encouraged Bonyadi to start her own channel. Her channel, which has more than 8,000 subscribers, gives insight into the life, and the miseries and hardships of being a female refugee alone in a foreign country.
Each day, “I receive 300 phone calls from my fans,” she said, referring to the level of support messages she gets from people on a phone number she has put in her channel. “I am addicted to watching her channel,” Massouma Noori told the Star. The 50-year-old is a new immigrant who recently managed to flee the Taliban and is now settled in a European nation. “Now being a refugee, I feel her deeply and I don’t want to miss any of her videos,” she said. “It’s because we have so much in common.”
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