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   lyallmorrison@cloudisland.nz's status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 06:34:41 JST LyallMorrison

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan Ah, nostalgia. Reminds me of the hostile questioning when crossing the British border.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 06:34:40 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @LyallMorrison did they ask you if you live where you belong?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 07:12:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @LyallMorrison And they assumed they got to decide where you belong, or what belonging somewhere means.l for you.

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     lyallmorrison@cloudisland.nz's status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 07:12:23 JST LyallMorrison

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Of course, the implied question was the reverse - "Do you belong where you live?" and the implied answer was "no".

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     lyallmorrison@cloudisland.nz's status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 07:12:25 JST LyallMorrison

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Yep, when I lived in London but had traveled to New Zealand to visit my family the passport control officer questioned me about my trip.

     Where have you been? Are the people nice there? Well why didn't you stay there?

     It was cruel to me, as a white person of British descent, fully documented and trying to make a life for myself in London. I can only imagine how much worse it was for other people who were the specific, racist, targets, as part of the 'hostile environment' policy.