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An American journalist on her own migrant journey

For New York Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi, Europe’s migrant crisis is something of an echo from the past. And that’s because three and a half decades ago, she and her family fled communist Romania in search of a better life.

Image: Rukmini Callimachi (left) at age five, just before she and her family fled Romania. Courtesy of Rukmini Callimachi

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