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When your homeland becomes someone else's vacation destination

My white colleagues talk about their family vacations to my home country like it is an exotic adventure while I am here because my family fled violence they probably do not know about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Tourism and displacement create jarring contrasts where one person's leisure destination represents another's site of trauma and loss.

Ideas that help explain it
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