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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
How Afghans Try To Start New Lives In India
Afghan migration to India is nothing new. In fact, it has been taking place for centuries. However, during the last decades of war, more and more Afghans moved to cities like New Delhi to start a new life.
And some have been successful with it.
A good example for that is Ilham, a catering service that serves traditional Afghan dishes to people in New Delhi. Ilham, which means “positive” in the Dari language, was launched in late 2015 by the UN refugee agency UNHCR and its partner Access.
The initiative brings together seven women, all refugees from conflict-torn Afghanistan.
About 11,000 Afghan refugees are registered with the UNHCR in India. In reality, many more refugees are living there. The Indian government just does not accept all of them as such.
For Afghans, this means that they can get visas to India easily. But when they arrive in India, they have to live totally on their own.
In most cases, this is not easy, as I witnessed personally when I visited New Delhi last March. Often, the UNHCR is also not there to help them the way it has been able to do in the case of Ilham.
