It is the end-of-year party in the courtyard of the Jean-Jaurès school. The CM1 proudly sing on the platform, accompanied on the guitar by their teacher. Hassan, illuminated eyes, does not lose a crumb of the show, where his son Ahmad sings.
Almost ten years after his arrival in France, the daily age of the 11 -year -old child has transformed. He who remained for hours with his mother in the corridors of the Paris metro, planted next to a sign “SOS Syrian family”, now has his own room, decorated with posters, where the Pokémon cards are crowded. Her mother, Nada, stopped begging with her children, and continues her alone during Ramadan to improve family income.
Like many families, she began to beg on the migratory road, to finance the trip to Europe through several African countries, then to repay debts contracted with the community.
The Syrian family comes from the DOM community, an ethnic minority considered as the “gypsies” of the Middle East, often wrongly assimilated to the Roma. The Doms, fleeing the war in Syria, arrived by thousands in Europe in 2014.
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The family’s journey was chaotic for several years in France, before
