1. Make a list of ideas or questions you had when you started reading this book that have been answered, challenged, confirmed or raised by the stories here. Were there surprises? If so, what were they? What have you learned from the book that you would like others to know?

2. Trace your family’s migration history—interview your parents, grandparents and extended family about their migration experiences, ask them about their decision-making, their journeys and their experiences of settling or not into a new society—compare and contrast those experiences with those of Abdullah, Atefe, Khadija and Reza.

3. Identify the main migrant communities where you live. Using desk-based research, investigate the history of one community’s arrival in your home country—when did they arrive, what caused them to leave their homes, what brought them to yours? What has been the response of the government? Reflect on what this research has taught you. Did it reveal assumptions of which you were unaware.

4. If you were to design a new migration policy for your home country, what would it look like?