Kalina Velikova
Kalina Velikova is a 35-year-old social worker from Bulgaria, who spent nine years in Bonn, Germany. Despite being fluent in German, she encountered significant social barriers and feelings of exclusion, which affected her mental well-being. In 2021, she returned to Sofia, where she now works as a project manager, reporting an overall improvement in her quality of life despite facing new challenges.
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Kalina spent nine years in Germany feeling marginalized despite speaking fluent German, and later returned to Sofia.
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Greece· 2025-07-17
Kalina Velikova spent nine years in Bonn as a social worker and felt excluded despite speaking perfect German.
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Croatia· 2025-07-11Kalina Velikova spent nine years in Bonn, where she faced social exclusion despite speaking perfect German.
Jutarnji list - Nekad europski 'Eldorado', a danas... 'Svi žele pobjeći, čak i najsiromašniji migranti. Ne želim da moja djeca odrastaju ovdje!'Croatia· 2025-07-11Kalina Velikova spent nine years in Bonn and felt excluded despite her fluency in German.
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Serbia· 2025-07-11
Kalina Velikova spent nine years in Bonn, where she felt excluded despite speaking German fluently.
U ovu zemlju Srbi hrle, a sada je razara velika krizaSerbia· 2025-07-07