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The person who speaks is Mahmud, a man in his early forties. He is one of 5,756 Somalis who reached Italy in 2014. A year in which 747 persons of Somali nationality presented an asylum application in Italy.
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Weissensteiner, M. (2019). Experiences and Perceptions of Refugees and Forced Migrants in the EU, Aiming to Cross an Internal Schengen Border. In: Wacker, E., Becker, U., Crepaz, K. (eds) Refugees and Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24538-2_9
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