Home and Homeland: Once, I Have Been Stateless

The concept of nationality is an illness

Photo by Karmen Jurela. It shows a building in Berlin-Mitte, the central district of Berlin. The writing “THIS BUILDING FORMERLY STOOD IN ANOTHER COUNTRY” is true: the house is located on former GDR-soil.

I was born in a country that no longer exists: the FRG. Then I lived in a country that no longer exists: Yugoslavia. After that, I moved to a country that was never recognized as a sovereign state: Taiwan. Now, I live in a country that 30-something years ago had a different name, different borders, and a different…