'I do...I'm done': Divorce spikes among Syrian refugee women in Germany
The transition to their new lives in Germany has led some Syrian women to end their marriages away from the prying eyes of their home communities.
KREUZBERG — For the past 18 months Hiba, a Syrian refugee in Germany, had been trying to divorce her husband with not much luck. To her surprise, in November, he finally agreed. Few days later, he married his new wife.
Hiba found out through her family.
“[My daughter] still can’t believe that he is married,” Hiba told me, glancing over at the little girl running circles around us. “He tried to tell her a couple of days ago, but she cried and cried and cried.”
When Hiba first escaped to Germany from war-torn Syria in 2016, she was alone with her daughter and pregnant with her son. She was excited to finally reunite with her husband, who had moved to Berlin four months earlier.
