We Are Unhappy in Europe, some Iraqis are heading back home
At 25, Faisal Uday Faisal had high expectations when he packed his bags for Europe in September. After quitting his job making tea and cleaning for the Ministry of Education in Baghdad, he set off to Turkey to join more than a million refugees and migrants who have made their way to the continent in the past year. “My dream since I was a child was to go to Europe,” he said. “I was imagining a beautiful life, a secure life, with an apartment and a salary.” But despite a grueling month-long journey to Sweden, he went back home, one of a surging number of returnees, I
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