Our place is somewhere else

The sentence that the novelist Mohamed Ezzedine Tazi chose as the title of his novel was said by a Tunisian Jewish immigrant who immigrated to Paris, as he addresses the heroine of the novel, the Moroccan immigrant Rabiaa Al-Saadi. Although the title of the novel needs to be deconstructed, it means that the natural place of living for immigrants is their country, not the country of immigration. A ...