Imagine you were given three days to produce certain citizenship paperwork. If you resist, you will either lose your life, end up in jail or be forcibly relocated.
This is part of the story of Santa Pradhan, who fled with her family in 1992 from Bhutan, a small country in the Himalayas.
“I grew up in a refugee camp in Nepal,” Pradhan recounts. “I have more memories of the refugee camp than I do of my own motherland. Often the rations were not enough; however, scarcity taught me to be stronger.”