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                        My name is Arth and I am from India.              My name is Sandy and I come from Scotland.
                        I moved to London in 1984. As a result            I came to Australia in 1855. Gold was being
                        of the Partition of India, my family              found at that time and my plan was to make
                        had gotten displaced. They could not              money at the digglings so I could buy land
                        fi nd a decent means of living after the          for farming. I moved here with my brother,
                        Partition. To improve the conditions of           so we could work together.
                        my family and provide them with better
                        prospects, I moved to London for a job.


                        My name is Tong and I live on the                 My name is Malik. I lived in Iraq during
                        small island of Kiribiati. The ocean              the rule of dictator. I wanted to speak out
                        tides seem to be coming further onto              against the terrible things going on. I knew
                        the land every year. This is aff ecting           it was not safe to live there and I wanted
                        our freshwater supply and the amount              to have a say in who ran my country by
                        of space we have for building houses.             voting. So, I moved to Germany after I got
                        Soon we will run out of freshwater and            a job as a professor. Now I am a naturalised
                        appropriate shelter for all the people            citizen of Germany.
                        who live here.























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