240: Growing Up as a Refugee, Becoming the Balkan Project Lead for the MaNaBu Movement, and Empowering Albanian Youth to Work Remotely with Lumjana Shehu

Lumjana Shehu shares her experience growing up as an Albanian refugee and having her family repeatedly targeted by scammers and shysters. 

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She recounts stories of crossing borders as a kid by methods ranging from fake passports, to running across fields in the middle of the night, to hiding in the back of container trucks. Lumjana reflects on the precarity of coming of age as an undocumented immigrant in both the U.S. and Canada, and the crushing experience of getting denied refugee status in Canada. She opens up about the financial and emotional devastation on her family when her father got arrested and sent to immigration prison, and her family’s eventual deportation to Albania. Lumjana then takes us on her journey of re-acclimation and eventually falling back in love with Albania. She talks about her experience at the first digital nomad conference in Tirana, her role as the Balkan Lead for the MaNaBu movement, and her passion for empowering Albanian youth to create their own destiny through remote work. Lumjana reflects on what travel means to her today, how her Albanian identity has evolved over the years, how she thinks about the concept of “home”, and how she feels deeply connected to refugees from Syria and other countries. FULL SHOW NOTES WITH LINKS TO EVERYTHING DISCUSSED AVAILABLE HERE.

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