ARNISA MORINA: FROM BEING A REFUGEE TO REPRESENTING THEM

Today, Arnisa Morina represents her clients at Toronto’s court rooms with poise and confidence but 25 years ago, Morina was just a toddler facing some unique circumstances; fleeing war-torn Kosovo at just three-years-old. During the war, Morina would lose her father in the Gulloboc massacre in what she calls her greatest loss. But that loss would only strengthen her courage and drive and to help thousands of others in seeking refuge and justice. Her mother, left to raise six children as a single mother in a foreign country, with no english. Morina says being raised as a refugee child helped her in overcoming many other challenges that life has thrown. She was determined to stay resilient. She wanted to be a driving change for other refugees and newcomers and break the barriers and stereotypes that face them.

“ Experiencing war has made me strong and determined to pursue my dreams, as a way of showing the Serbians responsible for the Kosovo war that despite the countless number of people they killed and dreams they shattered continue to stand strong” she wrote on a blog, and indeed her determination has led her to opening her own practice in Toronto specializing in Refugee and Immigration Law where she would break the stereotypes related to the success of refugees in Canada; where she says she was challenged by both the Albanian and Canadian communities of the possibility of success as a refugee. Morina would end up shattering those barriers and proving that dreams are just a hard work away from becoming reality. Morina graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019 and her passion continues to a be a voice representing refugees and people from misrepresented communities and advocate for innocent victims of war crimes.

YOUNG ARNISA MORINA

She hopes she will be able to help Kosovo one day become recognized as an independent state by many more countries but is thankful Canada along with other allies such as United States do.