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Cast away : true stories of survival from Europe's refugee crisis

Call Number

  • 305.906914 M4788 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : The New Press, 2016.

Physical Description

xiv, 336 pages : map ; 22 cm

Summary

"In one of the first works of narrative nonfiction on the ongoing refugee crisis ... [this book] describes the ... stories and the ... decisions that migrants have to make as they head toward what they believe is a better life: a pregnant Eritrean woman, four days overdue, chooses to board an obviously unsafe smugglers ship to Greece; a father, swimming from a sinking ship, has to decide whether to hold on to one child or let him go to save another"--Amazon.com.

Contents

  • 2011. A dictator's revenge ; Into the storm ; Welcome to Europe
  • 2012. Married to the military ; Sleeping on the roofs of police stations ; Three friends
  • 2013. A family betrayal ; An indefinable suffering ; Never again ; Fortress Europe ; Our sea ; Europe turns ugly ; Escaping 13V105
  • 2014. Hunted ; All alone ; A very long transit ; A lifeline cut off
  • 2015. ghosts on the horizon ; At the crossroads of Europe ; Dark thoughts ; A moral emergency ; Lockdown
  • Epilogue: No direction home.

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