Nansen Magazine, Nansen Magazine n.03, 2023

Meet Muzhgan Samarqandi, an Afghanistani broadcaster and mother who is making Aotearoa New Zealand home with her young family.
She tells her own story in Issue 03, one where Kiwis tell her to shut up and be grateful or go home, of being stereotyped as a mail-order bride, and of the connection she has found with Māori people, a relationship that reaches outside Western notions of who is welcome to live where.
Muzhgan recalls her family’s migration history, one that began 800 years ago in the time of Ghengis Khan. Her writing is exacting and compassionate, and there’s plenty of joy, too.
NANSEN magazine is a super-personal print publication about migration. Get to know one migrant per issue, as we hone in on the minutiae of lives lived away from home – moments all migrants can relate to and many non-migrants will, too. With 244 million migrants roaming the planet right now, we don’t think we’re ever going to run out of stories. NANSEN magazine aims to connect and celebrate migrants of all kinds.