Adria Scharmen

Here to stay

By Adria Scharmen / Issue 21, Exile, Magazine / 9 minutes of reading

As I write this, from beautiful Trondheim on a cool autumn day, the percentage of immigrants in Norwegian society has surpassed 18%.They are a mix of refugees, labor migrants, family members reunited with their Norwegian counterparts, and our second generation, the children of everyone in the previous categories. If we focus on only people without

Adria Scharmen । The challenges of the exiled writer

By Adria Scharmen / Issue 5 / 10 minutes of reading

“… when we consciously make space for the stories of displaced communities within our own, we make space for a shared cultural understanding that enriches us and connects us, disturbing the systems of division that alienate and dehumanize.” In the Mission Statement for Pen international Make Space campaign. The Make Space campaign stems from a