When Do You Cease Being an Immigrant?

Maybe you never do

Mansura Ghaffar
GEN
Published in
3 min readAug 5, 2019

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OnOn July 14, 2019, my funny, generous, and loving Uncle Zed was killed while being robbed by a passenger in his taxi. Yes, he was an “immigrant from Bangladesh,” as local news outlets pointed out — but he was also 65-years-old, and the story of his life shouldn’t be summed up in a single decision he made over 30 years ago.

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Mansura Ghaffar
GEN
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