Gezim is from Albania. When photograph was taken, in November 2005, he was ten and had spent more than half his life in Scotland. He speaks with a distinct Glasgow accent. In 2003, his family qualified for an amnesty giving asylum seekers leave to remain if they had made a claim before October 2000 and spent up to four years awaiting the outcome of that claim. Several of the people photographed in this exhibition claimed asylum shortly after October 2000 and seven years later are still awaiting the final decision from the Home Office.
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