ABSTRACT
While this study took place over three years from 2015 to 2018, I have kept in contact with some of the refugees who are now friends of mine. Even though two years on from the end of the fieldwork, to this day, they continue with difficulties in their “new life.” This chapter shows that the time variable seems to be no marker on the level of integration they have achieved or sense of feeling settled. It updates the reader on the progress made (or otherwise) from the main participants from the study before reiterating how it would take a seismic and systemic jolt to break us free from this status quo: the one which produces all this misery. It would have to be something which brought all political, social and commercial institutions to their knees. It would have to be something which made the world stand still long enough for us to envisage an alternative future.
