Judged

Last week I started a new class at uni. It's a writing subject, once a week. We were just a few people in the class and we all had different backgrounds.

To get to know eachother the teacher asked us what we did for a living. All women. There was a police, a receptionist, a sales woman, three students. And one unemployed.

The unemployed woman was from Africa. She said (in broken Swedish):

- I'm unemployed here. But in my homecountry I was a judge.

I think we all thought what I was thinking. How could this woman be unemployed? She's educated, experienced and smart. But, an immigrant in Sweden.

She was a judge in her home country. Moves to Sweden and can not get a job. Goes from regulating peoples futures to driving a bus or cleaning up in a park. Because those are probably the jobs she could get here. She gets the same job opportunites (or more like restrictions) as a person with no education at all!

Now who's being judged?